Bitterhall

PRAISE FOR HELEN McCLORY:'She is a writer completely unafraid' – ALI SMITH'Shiny dark licorice mind candy: nothing quite like them' – MARGARET ATWOOD (on

Mayhem and Death)'McClory is clearly one of the best new writers to have emerged in Scotland in the last few years' – HERALDFrom the prize-winning author of

The Goldblum Vriations: a tale of desire, madness and the reality-constructing powers of booksIn a darkening season in a northern city, Daniel, Órla and Tom's lives intersect through a peculiar flatshare and a stolen nineteenth-century diary written by a dashing gentleman who may not be entirely dead. An interwar-themed Hallowe'en party leads to a series of entanglements: a longed-for sexual encounter, a betrayal, and a reality-destroying moment of possession.As the consequences unfurl,

Bitterhall's narrative reveals the ways in which our subjectivity tampers with the notion of an objective reality, and delves into how we represent – and understand – our muddled, haunted selves.