*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 he''s getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor''s daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age thirteen.
It''s not ideal, but it''s a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn''t got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical...
Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands, renovating her de
