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Ryan O’Connor
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DiscoverAn evening with Ryan O’Connor at Falkirk Library
Ryan O’Connor’s novel The Voids is an outstandingly imaginative, haunting work set in a crumbling Glasgow tower block. Surreal, dark and humorous, it heralds a brilliant fresh voice in Scottish fiction. Join him on Thursday 18th August where he'll be discussing his writing at Falkirk Library.
For more information and to book your tickets, visit the event website here.
The Voids
A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022 FOR BBC, i-D MAGAZINE, AND FOYLES
An unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humour and humanity.
In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, the final occupant, a young man uplifted by angels and plagued by demons, searches for life in the voids: vacant flats that will never be lived in again. Out in the world, he stumbles into the city, moving from one surreal situation to the next, encountering others on the margins of society, embracing friendship and camaraderie wherever it is offered, grappling with who he is and what shape his future might take.
The Voids
A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022 FOR BBC, i-D MAGAZINE, AND FOYLES
‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night listening for human activity, for any sign of life at all. Voids are flats that have been vacated, that will never be lived in again. But there never were any signs of life. Only the wind whistling through vacant interiors.’
In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, residents slowly trickle away until a young man is left alone with only the angels and devils in his mind for company. Stumbling from one surreal situation to the next, he encounters…
