Weathercock - Couverture souple

'Glen Duncan's talent is dizzying. A blazing firework of a novel, full of humour, sex and rage.'
LIZ JENSEN author of WAR CRIMES FOR THE HOME and ARK BABY
'It is a delicious relief at a time when the great and the not so good insist on believing in evil and blaming that which is outside ourselves for all our ills, to read a cogently argued story of basic humanity. People do bad things. People do good ones too. Blaming "evil" just lets us off the hook of our own crimes - and our responses to those crimes. Glen Duncan has written a tough, eloquent, and redemptive story about personal responsibility and individual truth - all that matters in the end. Brutal and right.'
STELLA DUFFY
‘… a monstrously talented voice’ Guardian, Saturday 13/12
'Duncan's perceptiveness is registered in his vibrant, crafty prose ... Duncan has a gift for imagery ... WEATHERCOCK is Duncan's most ambitious book to date ... Glen Duncan's imagination, which is at least as opulent as his protagonist's, ensures that the exploration of these red-blooded themes is never less than fascinating.' TLS
'WEATHERCOCK is a dense doorstop of a book that fully justifies its 500 or so pages, as it is packed with the kind of fizzing intelligence, tight comparatives and pithy observations that suggest a writer at the height of his powers ... All the while duncan never forgets the basics - ther is a solid thriller underpinning the metaphysics here, too. ' Benji Wilson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
‘It is a measure of Duncan's skill as a writer that he makes his hero’s moral odyssey seem thoroughly believable… If Duncan is fascinated by the darker side of human nature, he also does justice to its moral opposite - courage, kindness, tenderness between lovers, the possibility of redemption’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Duncan’s prose … has a rare sensual accuracy and linguistic beauty. That ability to pin down the essence of things in description is what elevates this story of good and evil above the ordinary’
OBSERVER, 14/12
“Duncan happily lobs great gouts of psychic gore at the reader through his torrid, inventive prose while exploring the intellectual and emotional ramifications of his dark tale” THE TIMES, 03/01
'Brilliantly ghastly ... WEATHERCOCK seriously engages with moral and theological questions, but it is profane and funny too' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

This is the confession of Dominic Francis Hood - Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle.
Dominic's childhood had the usual cardinal points: the love of his family, a vague belief in God, a general curiosity, an emerging libido. But after he witnesses a miracle performed by Father Ignatius Malone, Dominic realises some part of him is skewed. Instead of becoming attracted to good, Dominic finds himself stimulated by the idea of other people's pain. And he knows that the mere fantasy will never be enough.
WEATHERCOCK is the great modern moral inquiry, by one of England's brightest and most confronting young novelists. By turns hilarious, appalling, celebratory and sad, it is an investigation of profound temptations and those human weapons - sometimes formidable, sometimes frail - we bring to bear against them.