Iain Banks’ first novel and the one that put him among some the best cult novelists. It is compelling stuff, with some gruesome and grisly deeds and wonderfully dark humour and one of the best endings of any novel to date. A must read.
Outside a remote Scottish village, Frank lives alone with his father. His mother abandoned them years ago and his older brother Eric is in a psychiatric hospital. Enter the strange world of Frank, who just 16, and turns to violent acts to escape his frustration. Soon the news arrives that Eric has escaped, and Franks prepares for his return.
'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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About Iain Banks
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels (which are published under the name Iain M Banks).
