For me life hasnt got dreams success and all that damn nonsense Life is full of shadows some of them soft and others conceal a hammerGalton Flood is a lonely man restless and ill at ease with his family He leaves his home in Guyanas capital Georgetown for a remote township and the first of a string of precarious jobs Meeting Gemma his landlords daughter appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection maybe even happiness But there is a darkness inside Galton and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally violently unravelWith this haunting portrait of a mind undone celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth its rivers townships and tenement yards and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community
