Review
Highly accomplished, expertly paced... the work of an author at the very top of his game. -- Press Association, 9th February 2010
A riveting and edgy read - the dialogue and scene-setting are spot on. --The Bookseller: panel choices, June 2010
A thoughtful and unsettling novel in which anxieties and insights slowly acrete. --The Times Literary Supplement
A book group could really go to town on this one, but you can guess by now I was completely drawn in...and Contact became my first really unputdownable book of 2010. --Dove grey reader (blog) February 2010
A riveting and edgy read - the dialogue and scene-setting are spot on. --The Bookseller: panel choices, June 2010
A thoughtful and unsettling novel in which anxieties and insights slowly acrete. --The Times Literary Supplement
A book group could really go to town on this one, but you can guess by now I was completely drawn in...and Contact became my first really unputdownable book of 2010. --Dove grey reader (blog) February 2010
Product Description
Dominic Pattison’s life is one of level contentment. His marriage has proved happy and durable; his business is successful. And then Sam Williams, builder and ex-squaddie, enters his life. Sam claims to be his son. Yet is Sam who he says he is? After almost thirty years, Dominic can remember little of his affair with Sam’s mother. His instinct is to recoil from this volatile and perhaps dangerous stranger. Sam, however, refuses to be dismissed. With its deft switches of sympathy between menaced ‘father’ and rebuffed ‘son’, Buckley’s novel is both a thriller and a subtle exploration of the intricacies of memory. Jonathan Buckley’s first five novels were published by Fourth Estate; The Biography of Thomas Lang (1997) Xerxes (1999) Ghost MacIndoe (2001) Invisible (2004) So He Takes the Dog (2006) Hi latest novel Telescope is also published by Sort of Books (2011)
