Experience a shipwrecked sailor''s disintegration into ''a naked madman on a rock'' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Marlon James.
An hour on this rock is a lifetime.
Glistening limpets. Lobster claws. Wild tangles of seaweed. Slowly, his eyes open. Everywhere, there is sea. Only this jagged peak interrupts the vast expanse of the Atlantic: a tooth in a gaping jaw. But he will survive. Rainwater can be drunk; anemones eaten. He dries his oilskin beneath the screaming gulls, and discovers his papers: Christopher Hadley Martin, TY. Lieut., R.N.V.R. Weathering lightning strikes of memory, he must now reconstruct his fate - piece by terrible piece.
''Wizardry of the first order.'' Observer
''Terrifying … Magnificently original.’ Sylvia Plath
''Devastating ... Violently real ... The unique kind of novel that compels you to reread it.'' Marlon James
''An amazing tour de force ... A blow-by-blow struggle for survival.'' Stephen Spender
''Immense ... To read it is to undergo a shattering and memorable experience.'' Kingsley Amis
''A master fabulist ... An iconoclast.’ John Fowles
