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About the Author
Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a Welcome Guest. She has received numerous awards and international fellowships, including an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University and an honorary fellowship from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Louise Welsh is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Reviews
An unusual and fascinating take on a crime novel from the established and endlessly inventive Louise Welsh . . . With a strong central character and vivid depictions of the disorder that accompanies social breakdown, it's a gripping book that prepares the way nicely for the next volume * Guardian *
Don't start reading this if you have a long to-do list, it's a hypnotically readable thriller and you won't get much don't until you've finished it . . . What's gripping about this is the way the two stories, the crime thriller and the gathering apocalypse combine to create something tenser and scarier than either alone. The way that society gradually disintegrates is brilliantly done; it makes you feel just how fragile civilisation is * Independent on Sunday *
A tense, claustrophobic medical whodunit with an apocalyptic tone that cranks the stakes ever higher * Herald *
Awards
Short-listed for Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2014 (UK) and Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writing Award 2014 (UK). Long-listed for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2015 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781529386851
Author Louise Welsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
About the Author
Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a Welcome Guest. She has received numerous awards and international fellowships, including an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University and an honorary fellowship from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Louise Welsh is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Reviews
An unusual and fascinating take on a crime novel from the established and endlessly inventive Louise Welsh . . . With a strong central character and vivid depictions of the disorder that accompanies social breakdown, it's a gripping book that prepares the way nicely for the next volume * Guardian *
Don't start reading this if you have a long to-do list, it's a hypnotically readable thriller and you won't get much don't until you've finished it . . . What's gripping about this is the way the two stories, the crime thriller and the gathering apocalypse combine to create something tenser and scarier than either alone. The way that society gradually disintegrates is brilliantly done; it makes you feel just how fragile civilisation is * Independent on Sunday *
A tense, claustrophobic medical whodunit with an apocalyptic tone that cranks the stakes ever higher * Herald *
Awards
Short-listed for Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2014 (UK) and Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writing Award 2014 (UK). Long-listed for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2015 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9781529386851
Author Louise Welsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
