On a dull March afternoon, three people are seen to rise off the streets of Glasgow into the clouds. A young woman, a bedraggled youth, and an older woman who has the modesty to hold her skirts around her knees as she rises. Genuine ascensions, or a trick of the light?
Chris Dolan's powerful first novel is the story of a great post-industrial city and the collective imagination of its citizens. With it, he emerges as an important new voice in European fiction.
