![]() To me, it felt a bit senseless, until right at the end, but by that point it wasn’t able to fully redeem itself. I think if I had read this as a teenager I might have enjoyed this more. I was really hoping for something more from this novel but it never really clicked with me. But when news comes of Eric’s escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother’s inevitable return – an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. Frank’s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank – no ordinary sixteen-year-old – lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. ![]()
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