'I guess we've always preferred hiding away than sharing our problems. Us versus the world.'

When Sam is woken in the middle of the night by the sound of his mother crying, he is reluctant to get up and discover the reason for her distress. When he finally discovers what has happened, even his worst fears cannot compare to the truth, and he realises that both their lives have now changed irrevocably.

Sam and Jude struggle to cope with their shock and grief and are powerless to stop their family home descending from a place of refuge into one of dread and danger. As their world begins to resemble a horror movie, events from the past surface once more bringing with them painful memories of betrayal and public shaming.

Can Sam and Jude recover from the trauma of what has happened or have their lives been devastated forever? Do they share their secret with the outside world, or do they retreat into a life of seclusion and fear? And is either one of them brave enough to make the ultimate sacrifice, for the sake of their family and potentially the rest of the world...?

About the Author

Catriona Child was born in 1980 in Dundee and spent a great deal of her youth ploughing up and down swimming pools. She has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She won the Sunday Herald Blog competition in 2007, was shortlisted for the National Library of Scotland/The Scotsman Crime short story competition in 2008 and has recently been published in the Scottish Book Trust Family Legends anthology and the magazine Northwords Now. She has worked as a postie, in a cinema, in a music shop and even had a very short-lived spell selling knickers on a market stall. She now lives and writes in Edinburgh with her fiance Allan and their fish Speckled Jim. She now masquerades as an office worker by day. Trackman is her first novel.

Reviews

'One of the brightest prospects among a thriving breed of fresh Scottish writing talent.' -EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS on Swim Until You Can't See Land

'Catriona Child has a pitch perfect ear for contemporary dialogue and a professional's eye for the detail of a city that tourists rarely notice' - NORTHWORDS NOW on Trackman

Book Information
ISBN 9781910022481
Author Catriona Child
Format Paperback
Page Count 286
Imprint Luath Press Ltd
Publisher Luath Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm