Two brothers elude a press witchhunt by hiding out in the remote wilds of highland Scotland. One of them is a murderer. But it's the other you have to watch out for...Daniel Shand's brilliant debut is at once a tense psychological thriller, and an unreliable narrative of unsettling force. Fallow heralds the arrival of a startling new talent in literary fiction.
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Paul and Mikey Buchanan are on the run. Mikey, who spent a good part of his childhood imprisoned, looks to Paul for guidance and protection. Paul, who narrates the story in what turns out to be an unreliable fashion, explains the reasons for their flight from home and slowly reveals the events from years before that ended with the death of a young girl. Darkly compelling, Fallow is not so much a crime novel as a psychological thriller, a chronicle of control, abuse and a twisted kind of love.
