Ian Parkinson | The Beginning Of The End

9781784630263

15/05/15

PB

224 pages

Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father’s body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks on a career in the Dutch and German porn industries, Raymond moves into the villa with the intention of renovating the property.

Life by the sea, however, does not go according to plan.

The Beginning of the End marks the arrival of a bold new talent.

‘Written in a spare, dissociated style and including a fair amount of wearily squalid hard-core explicitness, The Beginning of the End won’t be to everyone’s taste, but those who enjoy a good, bleak tale of anomie and alienation can’t go wrong – I found it utterly captivating.’ —Laura Wilson, The Guardian