A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 he became only the second person to win both the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes for poetry for the same book, Black Cat Bone. In 2015 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He is a Professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
It's very, very rare for a writer to be equally good at poems and
novels. John Burnside is. He's a brilliant poet, a brilliant
memoirist, and a brilliant novelist ... breathtakingly good
*Independent*
The most defining aspect of Burnside's work aside from its
linguistic exactness is the beauty of his prose. Quite simply, he
is a wonderful writer. Whatever he is writing always seems real
and, considering much of the content of this new novel, that is a
considerable asset for any storyteller
*Irish Times*
Burnside allows the ambiguity to remain in a hauntingly memorable
book
*Sunday Times*
In this beautifully sustained novel madness, mystery and
myth-making collide. Burnside has an eerie attunement to the
ineffable nature of existence and the fictions we construct to
navigate and explain it
*Financial Times*
The novel invites you to view storytelling as akin to madness...In
a book that often makes coded reference to itself to provoke
serious thought as to what fiction is about, this counts as a joke.
Its evasions may discomfit those who like to know exactly where
they stand, but those who enjoy being teased as well as spooked
should relish an eerie, ethereal novel that alludes to Lewis
Carroll and uses methods of Hitchcock and David Lynch
*Daily Telegraph*
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