Single & Single by John LeCarré

Single & Single - This novel is written in a very melancholy dreamlike tone.  It also vacillates from the present to various times in the past so seamlessly that it is very hard to tell in what time the story is taking place.  By the time I was half way through the book I not only had fallen asleep several times, but had no idea what period in the story's timeline I was reading. At that time I decided I was not interested enough to continue reading.