A Closed Book

Description

An isolated cottage deep in the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty and gloomy as the cell of a medieval monk. Two men sit opposite each other, one of them talking, the other typing. But why, in such already sombre surroundings, does one of them wear thick dark glasses? And what, above all, has caused an unearthly shadow to fall across these two interwoven destinies?With an atmosphere of eerie morbidity reminiscent of Stephen King, and an eleventh hour double whammy of a twist of which Agatha Christie herself would be envious, Gilbert Adair's latest novel is undoubtedly his most brilliant to date.

Gilbert Adair's novels include The Holy Innocents, Love and Death on Long Island, The Death of the Author, The Key of the Tower and A Closed Book. He is also the author of a full-length verse parody of Pope - The Rape of the Cock, and two sequels to classics of children's literature - Alice Through the Needle's Eye and Peter Pan and the Only Children. His non-fiction includes Hollywood's Vietnam, Myths and Memories, The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice, Flickers and Surfing the Zeitgeist. He was awarded the Scott-Moncrieff prize for his translation of George Perec's 'e'-less A Void. He lives in London and is regularly published as a journalist.