Wreaking

Scudamore, James

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Perilously ill, Jasper Scriven spends his days roaming the wards of a derelict psychiatric hospital on England’s southeast coast. His daughter Cleo works in London as a news editor. She is watched by Roland, a silent figure who inhabits a network of subterranean tunnels, surfacing at night to burgle homes. The three are connected by an accident that took place at the hospital, an event that defies understanding. Their attempts to negotiate the past will bring them together again and force them to revisit their actions, however uncomfortable that may be.

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Publish Date: 24/07/2014

Description

‘People who say there aren’t any brilliant literary novels about contemporary England anymore have obviously never read this.’ Irvine Welsh

A brilliantly imagined and unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Heliopolis and The Amnesia Clinic

Three solitary characters remember their shared past in a sprawling, derelict psychiatric hospital on the English coast: a turbulent summer in the aftermath of the hospital’s closure that culminated in a shocking, life-altering accident. But the more each tries to comprehend the past, the more elusive it becomes. Wreaking is an intricate, labyrinthine novel about the opiate power of place, the fragility of sanity and the fickle nature of memory.

Additional information

Weight 277 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 24 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

389

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K