'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.'
Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the more refined spaces of Palmerston Park. Though divided, like the city itself, by background and class, they shared the same smell, the same looks, and perhaps, as he comes to realize, ... Read more
Neil Jordan's long-awaited new novel is an extraordinary achievement - a comedy of manners at the same time as a Gothic tragedy, a thriller and an elegy. It offers imaginative entertainment of the highest order.
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Extraordinary . . . an enormously powerful book
Daily Telegraph
Romantic . . . lyrical . . . a novel of atmosphere . . . it succeeds powerfully
Sunday Times
'Desperately compelling . . . Meditative and compulsive, Shade continues to haunt long after the book ... Read more