Author:Aldous Huxley,David Bradshaw
In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material; an aging philosopher who pursues a wealthy yet mentally-disabled heiress and a pair of na-ve and charming young lovers. Deliciously satirical, Those Barren Leaves bites the hands of those who dare to posture or feign sophistication and is as comically fresh today as when it was first published.
An extraordinary novel... A beautiful tragedy and a series of painful, yet oddly exquisite surprises... Some Great Thing promises to be not just the fiction debut of the year, but also its highlight
—— John Burnside , ScotsmanThis is an extraordinary, powerful novel: technically ambitious, passionate and beautifully observed, filled with the truth of human frailty, the mystery of crafts and the stark bewilderment of love
—— A. L. KennedySome Great Thing is just about as fresh as it gets. Wry, harrowing, visceral, the writing bristles with imagination and intent. Colin McAdam has taken a jackhammer to the modern novel and come up with something bright and strong and new
—— Rupert ThomsonSuperb...Through muscular and powerful writing, McAdam thwarts all expectations and makes his material thrum with importance, insight and sad truth...Utterly compelling from first to last
—— Daily Telegraph'Precociously accomplished, wise, deeply moving-Perfectly pitched-A dazzling down-payment on posterity'
—— Scotland on Sunday'McAdam's narrative weaves in virtuoso dialogue as well as genuine warmth-Exhilarating'
—— Observer'Impressive and ambitious'
—— Independent'A highly intelligent and moving book'
—— Time Out
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