Written in English
Booker 2007 · Shortlist
Darkmans
Darkmans
Nicola Barker · 41 when first published
Novel · 838 pages · Thames Gateway, book 3
AI-generated summary:In Ashford, Kent, remade by the new Channel Tunnel station, a cranky sixty-one-year-old shares a flat with the drug-dealing son he hardly speaks to, while the town's distant past seems to seep into the present.