This book offers a brutal and exhilarating dissection of desire and deceit.In this incendiary novel, Mark McNay explores a dark love triangle between a social worker, a recovering psychiatric patient and a prostitute. Nigel, Gary and Charlie have very different personalities, backgrounds and lives, but their fates become inextricably linked and the current that runs through their relationships carries a shocking power that will transform them forever."Under Control" is a thrilling portrait of everyday heroism and treachery.
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"* 'PRAISE FOR FRESH Menacing, witty, with snappy no nonsense dialogue and an unambiguously shocking ending, McNay's debut is every bit as fresh as its title.' - Guardian * 'McNay's portrayal of factory life is richly convincing. His language - especially the dialogue - is exact, brimming with life and never strained... The result is a novel whose edgy energy carries you forward... a hugely entertaining, sometimes disturbing, fiction debut.' - Tom Adair, Scotsman * 'This energetic debut owes much to Welsh and Kelman but has vigour all its own... the setting is vivid and the vernacular dialogue sparkles with acerbic wit.' - Big Issue"
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Mark McNay was born in 1965 and brought up in a mining village in central Scotland. After a failed electrical engineering course and fifteen years doing odd jobs, Mark joined the UEA creative writing course in 1999. He graduated in 2003 with distinction. His first novel, Fresh, won the Arts Foundation New Fiction Award 2007 and the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Mark currently lives in Wales.
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