Darkmans

Ashford in Kent has been transformed since the Channel Tunnel brought it an international station, and Daniel Beede, sixty-one and cantankerous, mourns the local landmarks it has swept away. He shares a flat, and little else, with his estranged son Kane, who deals in prescription drugs; soon Gaffar, a Kurdish refugee with a terror of salad, moves in as well. Beede's friends include Elen, a podiatrist, her paranoid, narcoleptic husband Isidore and their unsettling small son Fleet, who starts quoting from a biography of John Scogin, jester at the court of Edward IV. As love and jealousy tangle the characters together, history seems to repeat itself like a bad joke, and the dark figure of Scogin hangs over them all.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

United Kingdom

Series

Thames Gateway, book 3

First published

2007

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9780007193622 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

9780061575211 (Harper Perennial, United States)

9780007193639 (Harper Perennial, United Kingdom)

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