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Isabel Fonseca’s first novel, “Attachment” published in 2008 is a bold and thoughtful fictional debut that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London and New York and into the most confounding precincts of the human heart.

Jean Hubbard is a syndicated health columnist, her husband Mark, a successful advertising-executive. After more than twenty years together, they revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. But when Jean opens an erotically charged email intended for Mark, she realizes that she has misdiagnosed some acute pathologies in her own life. The long idyll is over - but a more vivid, and compelling quest has just begun. Searching for answers Jean goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own.

Assured, funny, tender and provocative, Attachment is a dazzlingly good first novel - unflinching in its depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, and of the impulses that colour and disrupt our lives even as they reveal, ever more clearly, the nature of love.

"Just thinking of this novel, I smile. Attachment was so gratifyingly readable. It is plot-rich, which most literary novels are not: an airport novel with an agreeably sophisticated air. This is Isabel Fonseca’s first novel, and she seems born to the fictional trade...When it comes to deciphering our new world and its emotional intricacies, Fonseca is spot on." – Fay Weldon, Financial Times

Isabel Fonseca’s bestselling non-fiction book, ‘’Bury Me Standing, The Gypsies and Their Journey’’, chronicles the history of the modern European Gypsies. First published in 1995, it has now been published in 20 countries. In 2003 it won the Prix de L'Astrolabe, a literary prize devoted to travel.