A Case of Knives
Aug 2011 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD
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'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise' - Sunday Times
'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mail
'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned and full of echoes ... fascinating' - Spectator
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Lucas Salik is a heart surgeon, renowned for performing bold experiments on other people's hearts. Ostensibly chilly, he harbours a secret obsession for his reckless and charismatic friend Hal. When Hal announces his intention to find a wife, Lucas is forced to carry out his most complex operation yet: to engineer the marriage, setting it on a perilous path to failure.
But just as things appear to be working out, Lucas starts receiving ominous letters that threaten to jeopardize his intentions, his career - and his life.
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'Poised, startling and innovative, A Case of Knives marks the debut of an astonishingly accomplished new writer' - Anita Brookner
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About the author
Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of A Case of Knives (1988), which won a Betty Trask Prize, A Little Stranger (1989), Debatable Land (1994), which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and its Italian translation the Premio Grinzane Cavour for the best foreign novel of the year, and a collection of stories Wait Till I Tell You (1997). In 2006 she began to suffer from the effects of blepharospasm and became functionally blind as a result. In 2009 she underwent an operation which harvested tendons from her leg in order to enable her to open her eyelids.Her most recent book is her critically acclaimed memoir, What to Look for in Winter.
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