Walking into the Night is a novel from Olaf Olafsson about a man's hidden past and the immutability of love and loss.

For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led a quiet life as the butler to William Randolph Hearst, the greatest newspaper magnate in the world.

His days are filled with the rituals of Hearst's life and the demands of running a grand household.

But in his most private thoughts and memories, he relives another life: once a husband and father in Iceland, he abandoned his family for an actress in New York, where his affair ended in death and financial ruin.

His people are real, period atmosphere and detail unobtrusively perfect, his novel a gem and a small masterpiece."