Hardcover, 400 pages
English language
Published Oct. 3, 2007 by Little, Brown and Co..
After years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family's highland estate, Garbadale. A powerful American corporation is trying to buy the rights to the family's successful boardgame, Empire! Alban must confront his mother's suicide and his teenage love affair with his cousin Sophie.
After years of exile, Alban Wopuld has been summoned back to his family's highland estate, Garbadale. A powerful American corporation is trying to buy the rights to the family's successful boardgame, Empire! Alban must confront his mother's suicide and his teenage love affair with his cousin Sophie.
this book is intense (as most bankses are) thoughtful, funny, ironic and sarcastic, honest and much more, it will draw you in.
Filled with longing and regret, and in places laugh-out-loud funny. The writing is beautiful.
