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...