About the Author:
James Scudamore is the author of two previous novels. His first, The Amnesia Clinic, won the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for four other prizes, including the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second, Heliopolis, was longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize. He has held two fellowships at the University of East Anglia, and is on the MFA faculty of City University Hong Kong. www.jamesscudamore.com
Review:
"Scudamore is a richly imaginative fabulist" -- Alan Warner Scotsman "A quietly remarkable novel that resonates with universality" Literary Review "A creepy chronicle of abuse, abandonment and unrequited love. So much here is brilliant" Metro "A gripping exploration of mental illness. A compelling update of a Gothic novel. The real pleasure of this book is Mr Scudamore's masterly and unflinching prose" The Economist "There can be no doubting the remarkable scope of this writer's imagination, nor the skill of his prose. He has a genius for atmosphere. Wreaking is...overflowing with images and ideas and influences" -- Cressida Connolly Spectator "Relentlessly inventive" Sunday Telegraph "Settings don't come much more Gothic than Wreaking, the derelict, decaying...psychiatric hospital of James Scudamore's striking third novel" Daily Mail "Wreaking itself is drawn brilliantly with both precise and pungent descriptions. The descriptions of teenage boredom by the sea and adult ennui in the city are stingingly realised. Sharply hewn, inventively structured and unnervingly written" -- Stuart Evers Observer "Everything we most want to know, the author quietly looks away from, until the story becomes as layered, contorted and interrupted as the collapsing architecture of Wreaking itself. Then time straightens out and speeds up suddenly. Everything connects. Everything comes to light. Everything is revealed, yet somehow the buckling of time induced by subjectivity, madness and metaphor makes it all just as hard to see" -- M. John Harrison Guardian "A compelling update of a Gothic novel. The real pleasure of this book is Mr Scudamore's masterly and unflinching prose" Economist "A twisted, unsettling tale of family lies and lonely souls" Shortlist "Intensely imagined" Sunday Times "A sense of unease is cleverly conjured up" Press Association Syndication "It is the building itself that looms largest. And though, like Thornfield and Manderley, we find Wreaking broken by time, weather and debt, it commands our attention" Times Literary Supplement "The question of what constitutes madness... is intelligently explored. Bold, grotesque, bawdy...memorable" Independent On Sunday
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.