The Oversight

8vo. Pp. [x], 258. Pictorial wrappers.

Crease to rear card cover, else fine.

Shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award. Shuttling between 1980s Bath and present-day south London, a debut novel centring on a gawky teenager coming to terms with his sexuality and as a reserved, blasé twenty-something facing up to family secrets. Author's most recent speculative fiction on the inner workings of Alan Turing's mind, Murmur (2018), brought him much critical acclaim, including the £30,000 Wellcome Prize. "Deeply impressive. Eaves simply does not put a foot wrong." –Evening Standard