Author: Iain Banks
Published: 1984
Category: Adult/YA (can count as both)
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Pages: 184
Summary on Goodreads: Frank — no ordinary sixteen-year-old — lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago; his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return — an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.
If you like this, check out the author's many other books: The Crow Road
Complicity
The Bridge
Whit
Espedair Street
Dead Air
The Business
Walking On Glass
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
and many more, the author has written almost thirty books
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