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DiscoverAn Evening With Ryan O’Connor at Waterstones Kirkcaldy
Join Scottish author Ryan O'connor for an evening at Waterstones Kirkaldy where he will be discussing and signing his debut novel The Voids.
Fuelled with dazzling precision of language, jet-black humour and boundless humanity, The Voids follows the last resident of an abandoned tower block in Glasgow as he navigates his mind and his surroundings, in a haunting search for friendship – and a future.
This novel is beautifully written, and Ryan O'Connor has a very bright future. Don't miss out on your chance to meet this future best-seller.
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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…
