- Published: 15 March 2007
- ISBN: 9780099483786
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $19.99
Patrick's Alphabet
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- Published: 15 March 2007
- ISBN: 9780099483786
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $19.99
His corpse-strewn first novel derives its title from St Patrick's habit of inscribing letters on new territory to transform it...the atmosphere of creeping menace kept this heathen reading, simultaneously irked and intrigued
Mark Sanderson, Daily Telegraph
Crafty, sad and haunting
Literary Review
The narrative voice turns it from a dark whodunit into something more intriguing. But Roberts never forgets that his principal responsibility is to keep us hooked - and that he does with aplomb
Barry Forshaw, Daily Express
Suitably disturbing and unsettling, and lingers long in the mind
Daily Mail
Reminded me at different times of Camus's The Plague, Kafka's The Castle... a disturbing and intense piece of fiction
Peter Guttridge, Observer
Stylistically accomplished
John Dugdale, Sunday Times