This is the story of a few hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head - escaping a home for 'very disturbed young men? and walking into the haunted space between his past and the heavy question of his future. A novel about being lost in the dark and realising you are not alone.
'Max Porter is one of my favorite writers in the world. Why? Because he's always asking the most important questions and then finding ways - through innovative structures and that inimitable voice -of answering those questions soulfully, with his full attention, in ways that make the world seem stranger and more dear (or more dear because stranger). He gives his readers, in other words, bursts of new vision.' George Saunders







