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Bitterhall

(2021)
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PRAISE FOR HELEN McCLORY:

'She is a writer completely unafraid' - ALI SMITH

‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy: nothing quite like them’ - MARGARET ATWOOD (on Mayhem and Death)

‘McClory is clearly one of the best new writers to have emerged in Scotland in the last few years’ - HERALD

From the prize-winning author of The Goldblum Vriations: a tale of desire, madness and the reality-constructing powers of books

In a darkening season in a northern city, Daniel, Órla and Tom’s lives intersect through a peculiar flatshare and a stolen nineteenth-century diary written by a dashing gentleman who may not be entirely dead. An interwar-themed Hallowe’en party leads to a series of entanglements: a longed-for sexual encounter, a betrayal, and a reality-destroying moment of possession.

As the consequences unfurl, Bitterhall’s narrative reveals the ways in which our subjectivity tampers with the notion of an objective reality, and delves into how we represent – and understand – our muddled, haunted selves.


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Shiny dark liquorice mind candy." - Margaret Atwood


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