In Vendela Vida's taut & mesmerizing novel of ideas a woman travels to Casablanca Morocco on mysterious business While checking into her hotel the woman is robbed of her wallet & passport
- all of her money & identification Though the police investigate the woman senses an undercurrent of complicity between the hotel staff & the authorities
- she knows she'll never recover her possessions Stripped of her identity she feels burdened by the crime yet strangely liberated by her sudden freedom to be anyone she chooses A chance encounter with a movie producer leads to a job posing as a st&-in for a well-known film star The star reels her in deeper though & soon she's inhabiting the actress's skin off set too
- going deeper into the Casablancan night & further from herself & so continues a strange & breathtaking journey full of unexpected turns an adventure in which the woman finds herself moving further & further away from the person she once was Told with vibrant lush detail & a wicked sense of humour The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is part literary mystery part psychological thriller
- an unforgettable novel that explores free will power & a woman's right to choose not her past perhaps not her present but certainly her future This is Vendela Vida's most assured & ambitious novel yet