Winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award
Damien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod.
Without a relationship compelling enough to keep him in his humdrum life, Damien decides to take off to the Cape.
But his new future means confronting his family's past. And when he discovers a fragment of an unpublished mystery novel, the parallels with his uncle's life quickly become disconcerting and sinister...
- ISBN10 0571296874
- ISBN13 9780571296873
- Publish Date 16 May 2013 (first published 2 August 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 288
- Language English