Dr Edman, a middle-aged dermatologist, has been badly battered by work and competition at a Scandinavian research hospital. He and his wife Madeleine move to Southern Turkey in order to reinvent his life, obtaining fast-track citizenship on account of his employment at a military-related clinic. This proves a sinuous enterprise as he no longer has his strong-mindedness - only a great deal of sensitivity and pride - and he carries his irony and idiosyncrasies too far. At the beginning of Little Counsellor, Dr Edman arrives in England to attend a conference, but his flight doesn"t go as smoothly as planned - he"s detained by the airport and misses the entire first day. "You have recently got Turkish citizenship. Can you tell us about that? Do you consider yourself a Muslim?" Energetically I shook my head. "Have you been in contact with any mosque here in London?" "I know the one at Finsbury Park from the outside," I retorted. Quite naively I thought I had everything under control. Once more his life will have to be reconstituted, but there is no progress in this until Madeleine - much more eager to further his interests - intervenes. It is she who, indirectly, sows an idea in his mind - the Ivar Foundation. Ivar is an animated little creature and in fact Dr Edman"s sounding board, "Little Counsellor". Ultimately, he takes the leading part, upstaging even his master...