Waterstones Irish Book of the Month for October 2023
Felix Mordaunt,recently released from prison,steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the late,world-famous scientist Adam Godley.
Felix must now vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family,with their harried housekeeper who becomes his landlady,with the recently commissioned biographer of Godley Sr.,and with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.
Publisher: Swift PressISBN: 9781800753365Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'John Banville is a marvellous and rewarding novelist...He is a magician,really.'- Allan Massie,The Scotsman
'Flick to any page in any of his novels and soon you will come to a sentence or an image so perfectly contrived it stops you for a moment,achingly,like a beautiful stranger passing in the street.'- Tom Ball,The Times
'This novel is essence of Banville...There is the usual sumptuous style...He retains a brilliant grasp of imagery...There is a welcome sense of playfulness...Banville is clearly having a lot of fun.'- John Self,The Daily Telegraph
John Banville
John Banville is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist,short story writer,playwright and screenwriter.
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