Product Description

On the morning of his fortieth birthday, Mike Hannah wakes from a dream about the girl he loved twenty years earlier. Once an aspiring writer, he is now a private detective whose work and marriage have become routine, and he begins to wonder what might have been. Which leads him to wondering where his ex-girlfriend is now, and whether other people’s lives are more exciting than his. Which leads him to spying on his own family, friends and neighbours. Which leads to some very unwelcome surprises…

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1258389 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 278 pages

William Sutcliffe, Guardian
'Cowan's greatest achievement is that he welds... emotional and intellectual acuity to a breezy, intensely readable style.'

Review
PRAISE FOR PIG:

'A coming-of-age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as THE CATCHER IN THE RYE' (New York Times )

'A first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment ... gripping and moving' (Michael Dibdin )

'A wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous' (David Buckley, Observer )

PRAISE FOR CRUSTACEANS:

'Haunting and heartbreaking' (The Sunday Times )

'Subtly written and superbly crafted ... Cowan has excelled himself with this brilliant and poignant book' (Sunday Express )

'Told with a tenderness and detail that shine through all [Paul's] dark domestic secrets. CRUSTACEANS is a bleakly beautiful novel ... riveting' (Literary Review )

About the Author
Andrew Cowan was born in Corby and educated at Beanfield Comprehensive and the University of East Anglia. PIG, his first novel, was published in 1996 to great acclaim and as well as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, won the Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, the Author’s Club First Novel Award and a Scottish Council Book Award. He is also the author of COMMON GROUND and CRUSTACEANS, which was published to critical acclaim in 2001. He lives in Norwich with the writer Lynne Bryan and their daughter, Rose, and has recently been appointed Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UEA.