The Angle of Incidence

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 406, [4 (blank)]. Burgundy cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket photograph by John Bulmer.

Hint of toning to textblock edges, else Fine.

Author's second novel, following his acclaimed debut The Year's Midnight (1995). Catherine O'Hara has run away to Glasgow – "across the water" from a sexually and physically abusive relationship with her father, and comes to find that the violence she has suffered has lodged deep within her. "The most impressive young writer... for years." –Pat Barker