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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD
WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD
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'A first novel of formidable accomplishment ... a debut of the highest promise' - Sunday Times

'No new writer can make a more stunning entrance than Candia McWilliam' - Daily Mail

'An incisive debut, intelligent, scrupulously planned and full of echoes ... fascinating' - Spectator
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Lucas Salik is a heart surgeon, renowned for performing bold experiments on other people's hearts. Ostensibly chilly, he harbours a secret obsession for his reckless and charismatic friend Hal. When Hal announces his intention to find a wife, Lucas is forced to carry out his most complex operation yet: to engineer the marriage, setting it on a perilous path to failure.

But just as things appear to be working out, Lucas starts receiving ominous letters that threaten to jeopardize his intentions, his career - and his life.
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'Poised, startling and innovative, A Case of Knives marks the debut of an astonishingly accomplished new writer' - Anita Brookner

Product details

Published 15 Aug 2011
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 320
ISBN 9781408826959
Imprint Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Candia McWilliam

Candia McWilliam was born in Edinburgh. She is the…

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