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ISBN: 1842430157
Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 224pp
Rights: All rights available
Pub. Date: August 2001

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Aitken was born in Scotland in 1946, has an MA in French from the University of St Andrews. He has worked largely overseas, both as a teacher and a freelance journalist. He currently lives in his home town, Dundee.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

What society chooses to call Daniel Adamson's crime is the extreme fondness he has for women's ears. This preference has led Daniel to commit deliberate murder and involuntary arson, to consort with rent girls, even to sink to autobiography as he languishes in a mental hospital. Confession is good for the soul? Daniel confesses in spades. Daniel confesses in buckets and spades. Can he really cajole us into believing that he is an innocent victim of society, upbringing, the ozone layer, biology, O-level history, his own DNA? Can he coax a smile out of us even as he horrifies us? Where do Lola Montez, Miss Jean Brodie, Cleopatra, a prie-dieu and a pib-corn come into it all? And is Inspector Angus Macbriar really unique in the annals of recorded crime by dint of his utter lack of interesting traits? Slip into this wig and judge for yourself.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Hannibal meets Dolph Lundgren's character in Universal Soldier' - Daily Mirror [read the full review]

'a darkly comic novel about murder, confession and car fetishism' - Ham and High [read the full review]

'an ambitious first novel, brilliantly realised' - Steven Bell, Scotland Online [read the full review]