The Crow Road

By Iain Banks

Categories: Literature & Fiction

"It was the day my grandmother exploded." So begins the story of Prentice McHoan, a student in Glasgow, who returns to his family's home in Argyll for his grandmother's funeral. As he quarrels with his father and pursues a hopeless crush, Prentice is drawn into the mystery of his uncle Rory, a travel writer who vanished years before. The novel moves between generations of the McHoan family and was adapted for BBC television in 1996.

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