The Steep Approach To Garbadale (Paperback)

Iain Banks (author)

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Paperback 400 Pages
Published: 05/12/2013

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Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations wll radically alter Alban's perspective for ever.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349139142
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 274 g
Dimensions: 199 x 137 x 26 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

As good as anything Banks has ever written, if not better * Sunday Telegraph *
Chock-a-block with the author's inimitable quirky magic * Financial Times *
What Banks serves up is both unanticipated and terrifying. The fates of his characters are genuinely affecting * Evening Standard *
Compellingly, beautifully crafted... A fascinating read * New Books Magazine *
Banks still has the ability to make the reader smile with pleasure * Scotland on Sunday *
A novel that could easily replace The Crow Road as his career highlight * Maxim *
Banks begins his most consistent book since The Crow Road with slight-of-hand tricks displaying the master in rude form... These shifts in voice are so perfect, so clean and witty that when Alban comes to the fore, we feel he's one of us * Waterstones Books Quarterly *