It’s 2014 in San Francisco and TRISTAN thinks he’s thinks he’s found love. Meanwhile in London, TOBY is at work in the City. On the Amalfi Coast, CORDELIA and FREDDIE are fighting about a secret. THE BEAUTIFUL ANATOMY OF DESPAIR is a novel about hope and hopeless. It is a portrait of four friends figuring out how to live a meaningful life, and what it takes to survive one that isn’t.