by Gillian White (Author)
Passed from social worker to foster home, Fergus has become bitter and uncontrollable. When he discovers that the one person he had come to love has also betrayed and abandoned him, he sets out to find her. With a light touch yet a powerful aura of menace, Gillian White takes a scalpel to the multiple layers of duplicity and morality in a rural community in this funny, and disturbing, novel guaranteed to grip and not let go.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Oct 1996
ISBN 10: 1857994361
ISBN 13: 9781857994360
Book Overview: * Another outstanding novel from an exceptionally talented author * Rich Deceiver was shown as a two-part special on BBC TV * Gillian White is building a brilliant reputation, attracting wide critical acclaim: * A novelist of the highest quality...an intense and vividly-written novel which takes you by the throat and won t let go _ Sunday Independent * Bitingly brilliant...complex, witty and sinister _ Daily Mirror * This is clever clever writing, to mix tragedy and comedy and present it as easy reading...it is a Martin Amis with heart _ Glasgow Herald