Alphabet

Simply an epiphany.--Kirkus, starred review

Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change? Darkly compelling and deeply moving, Alphabet is a psychological exploration of one man's uncertain and often-harrowing journey towards rehabilitation.

Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting ... I kept saying to myself, how could she know this?"--Erwin James, convicted murderer, author of A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook

"Sometimes novelists go too far--and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go."--Time Out UK

Praise for Kathy Page

"Her unforgettable prose is moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."-- Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out

"Marvellously well-crafted ... I can't remember the last time I was so compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel."-- Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 10/21/2014
ISBN: 9781927428931
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/2014 pg. 98
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 08/25/2014
Shelf Awareness 10/31/2014
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 41