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The Steep Approach To Garbadale

by Iain Banks

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Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks''s fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint C... Read more

Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks''s fabulous new novel.
The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family''s highland castle.
Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban''s past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win''s revelations wll radically alter Alban''s perspective for ever.

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File size8.75 X 6.35 X 0.68 in
Print pages400
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
Publication date January 14, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780748109944
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Iain Banks
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Lain Banks (16 Feb 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. Af...

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