Gripping and obsessive novel by the author of The Insult
RUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got to Stop was published in 2009.
A chilling, fabulous mirror on reality ... An involving and
inventive book full of beautiful writing. It has the momentum of a
thriller harnessed to the substance of a modern classic
*Scotland on Sunday*
A sophisticated storyteller and portrayer of character, who writes
in rhythmic prose enriched with original imagery
*Sunday Times*
Astonishing ... The novel is filled with colourful eccentrics and
unworldly happenings, quirky characters and supernatural
undercurrents ... Exceptionally well-written
*Times Literary Supplement*
Seethes with originality ... An ingenious, sardonic and seductive
roman noir
*New York Times Book Review*
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