Walking on glass

Graham Park, an art student, is on his way to meet the woman with whom he has been in love for months. She is an enigma to him. He is walking on air. He has innocence on his side.

Steven Grout trusts nobody, nothing. In the grip of a wholly justifiable paranoia, he knows that They are out to get him. He wears a safety helmet at all times as a precaution from invisible enemies. He does not know it, but the attack will come from the sky.

Quiss, an irritable old man protected against the cold of his shale castle by layers of fur capes, plays interminable, impossible games that are a prelude to a riddle. The answer to the riddle will release him.

These three men are on a collision course.

With the brilliance of language and penetrating understanding of human nature that inspired Andrew Greeley to call Iain Banks's first novel, The Wasp Factory, "one of the strangest stories of grace and redemption that it has ever been my privilege to read," the author has produced a dazzling work of many dimensions. Walking on Glass is a story of the crime of innocence, the conspiracy of law, and the dark comedy of survival.