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The Crow Road : 'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian, Paperback / softback Book

The Crow Road : 'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian Paperback / softback

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'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times'His masterpiece' Jay Rayner'Self-deprecating, funny and hopelessly self-deceiving' Daily Telegraph'One of the best opening lines of any novel' Guardian'It was the day my grandmother exploded.

I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.'Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family.

Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...

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