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Enter if you can bear it – the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.
‘Two years after I killed Blyth, I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did my young cousin Esmeralda, more or less on a whim. That’s my score to date. Three. I haven’t killed anybody for years, and don’t intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.’
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At last, a reader who does it justice . . . Peter Kenny is the one reader (I've heard five) who brings out Banks's glorious sardonic wit. Good things are worth waiting for (Sue Arnold, GUARDIAN)
A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre, bizarre and...quite impossible to put down (FINANCIAL TIMES)
A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene (MAIL on Sunday)
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A Gothic horror story of quite exceptional quality...macabre, bizarre and...quite impossible to put down (FINANCIAL TIMES)
A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene (MAIL on Sunday)
The book that announced a genius: Iain Banks' momentous first novel, published in 1984 is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0007116098
- ISBN 13 9780007116096
- BindingAudio Cassette
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