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From the multi-garlanded author of PIG, a mesmerising tale of the damaging lengths one man goes to in order to make sense of his life
Andrew Cowan was born in Corby and educated at Beanfield Comprehensive and the University of East Anglia. His first novel, PIG, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, the Author's Club First Novel Award and a Scottish Council Book Award. He is also the author of COMMON GROUND and CRUSTACEANS, which was published to critical acclaim in 2001. He lives in Norwich with the writer Lynne Bryan and their daughter, Rose, and has recently been appointed Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UEA.
'Elusive, strange and complex ... an emotionally and philosophically rich existential private eye novel ... Slowly, with great subtlety and skill, Cowan ... explores the private battles that rage silently in every home' -- William Sutcliffe, Guardian 'Gripping. We are mesmerised by its smoothness of plot and prose, perfectly designed to make the odd and the irregular stand out with intensity ... Cowan has succeeded in making the ordinary incredibly engrossing -- something that many try to do but few do well.' -- Scotland on Sunday 'Its willed restraint and implicit solitude are wonderfully sustained ... a masterclass in intimate understatement which proves that the brain is indeed our most erotic organ and the imagination its muse.' -- Scotsman 'An acutely observed, subtle exploration of how much (or little) people really know about those they should know best ... supremely well crafted: the descriptions are strikingly visual, the milieu wickedly credible ... quietly moving, keenly insightful, a story with a provincial English backdrop that is also an understated meditation on the authenticity of existence.' -- Sunday Business Post '[Cowan] paints a patient, exact and quietly powerful portrait of lives slowly being stripped of their secrets and delusions.' -- Sunday Times
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