Fall (Camel West)(Paperback / softback)

Estranged brothers are reunited over plans to develop the tower block where they grew up, but the desolate estate becomes a stage for reliving the events of one life-changing summer, forty years earlier ? the exquisitely written, moving new novel from West Camel.?Unfolds like a spell? Carol Lovekin, author of Ghostbird?A deceptively complex and layered story; beautiful, traumatic and ultimately uplifting? Louise Beech, author of This Is How We Are Human''A mesmerising portrait of toxic family relationships: one that perfectly captures a turbulent era in a changing Britain. I was gripped'' Caroline Wyatt_____________________________Twins Aaron and Clive have been estranged for forty years. Aaron still lives in the empty, crumbling tower block on the riverside in Deptford where they grew up. Clive is a successful property developer, determined to turn the tower into luxury flats.But Aaron is blocking the plan and their petty squabble becomes something much greater when two ghosts from the past ? twins Annette and Christine ? appear in the tower. At once, the desolate estate becomes a stage on which the events of one scorching summer are relived ? a summer that shattered their lives, and changed everything forever?Grim, evocative and exquisitely rendered, Fall is a story of friendship and family ? of perception, fear and prejudice, the events that punctuate our journeys into adulthood, and the indelible scars they leave ? a triumph of a novel that will affec
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