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Book SynopsisDrinking late one night in an East End club, a writer is approached by Pascal, the friend of a man named Désirée who claims he knows the writer from growing up in Orkney - and that he''s dying and wants him to write his story. The writer ignores him. But a month later, a package arrives containing, among discs, sunglasses and other trinkets, a photograph of the writer aged eight. So he listens to the discs and emerges amazed and shaken. He then transcribes this heartbreaking story which traces Désirée''s life as a bullied youth in South Ronaldsay to the streets of Soho where he reduces his grateful clients to tears with his astonishing gift of sex...
Trade Review'From the start it glistens with teasing self-confidence, spinning a yarn that has you intrigued ... you end up hooked on the voice which leaves you stunned' Tom Adair, Scotsman 'What a strange and beautiful story this is. It is slight but packed with incident and feeling: raw and poetic, earthy and unearthly. The picaresque flourishes in Sutherland's everyday ... In Sutherland's brutal, tender wonderland, miracles might occur' The Times 'Intense and crackling with streetwise energy ... his writing is powerful, astute and full of promise' Independent 'Sutherland has a way of diving in to the heart of an individual that is enthralling ... he has a sure touch with pacing and phrasing' Carrie O'Grady, Guardian
