Michael Harrison

*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020*

*A New Statesman Book of the Year*

A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful Russell T. Davis

Brilliantly unsettling Olivia Laing

A magificent book Neil Gaiman

An extraordinary experience William Gibson

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form.

Shaw had a breakdown, but hes getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctors daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen.

Its not ideal, but its a life. Or it would