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The Oversight

A flawless fictional debut from a great young writer, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.

In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark. On his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift — a Victorian writing box, the legacy of his father and the repository of his youthful secrets, and of his current feelings of guilt. When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place.

From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-330-48140-3
  • EAN
  • 9780330481403
  • Genres
  • lgbt, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2002