William Leith: The Cut that Wouldn't Heal [2022] hardback Condition:New 95) smokes and spies on

95) smokes and spies on the smug Cunninghams down the street as they play their bile-inducing game of happy families

'An ambitious and important writer' New York Times

enough twists to make you giddy and deeply satisfying' Peter James

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth

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William Leith: The Cut that Wouldn't Heal [2022] hardback Condition:New 95) smokes and spies on'Honest without oversharing, William Leith is such a perfect writer A triumph' Justin Webb 'What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father's death, I have a premonition that the breath he is taking will be his last. It was only a graze caused by a dishwasher door, but the cut would not heal and infection took hold. Fifty days later, William Leith is