Take note literary crime fans: an exceptional new writer has just broken the genre wide open. With the debut of The Cutting Room , Louise Welsh confidently landed on the British bestseller lists and then proceeded to collect several prizes, including The Saltire Society First Book Award, a BBC Underground 2003 Award and was declared one of the Best First Novelist of 2002, by The Guardian . The Cutting Room became a sellout stage production at Glasgow's famous Citizens' Theatre, has sold into seventeen languages and has ...
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Take note literary crime fans: an exceptional new writer has just broken the genre wide open. With the debut of The Cutting Room , Louise Welsh confidently landed on the British bestseller lists and then proceeded to collect several prizes, including The Saltire Society First Book Award, a BBC Underground 2003 Award and was declared one of the Best First Novelist of 2002, by The Guardian . The Cutting Room became a sellout stage production at Glasgow's famous Citizens' Theatre, has sold into seventeen languages and has been optioned for film. Set in contemporary Glasgow, The Cutting Room is narrated by Rilke, an auctioneer by profession, and the most eccentric, sardonic, hedonistic and completely flawed character to seep from fiction in recent years. When Rilke comes across a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing old photographs, he is driven to unearth the secrets of their recently deceased owner. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness, steered by Rilke's dark, insatiable curiosity.
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