Burnt Island
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Alice Thompson
Alice Thompson was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She was the former keyboard player with post-punk eighties band, The Woodentops and joint winner with Graham Swift of The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Justine. Her second novel, Pandora’s Box, was shortlisted for The Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. Her other novels are Pharos, The Falconer and most recently Burnt Island. Alice is a past winner of a Creative Scotland Award. She is now lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh University.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the story of a struggling writer who goes on an island retreat, to help him break through his writer's block - he is intent on writing something that will be popular, not like his previous books, which were critically acclaimed but didn't sell very well. Or perhaps this is the story that he writes - a gripping thriller full of twists and turns and with, as he notes to himself, a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter.Either way, the island retreat is not everything that Max hoped for. His luggage is washed overboard during his boat ride out to the island, his promised traditional bothy turns out to be a stationary caravan, and his mysterious benefactor is revealed as a more successful writer than he is. Everyone on the island seems to know his business:"You're the writer, aren't you?"It was funny how each person said that in a different way. Dr Macdonald said it as if it were a medical condition. How right she was.However, none of them is exactly what they seem - and some of them drop mysterious warnings about the fate of the last young writer to accept James' generosity.I don't think it was inevitable that I enjoyed this book - sometimes this sort of slightly show-offy cleverness annoys me - but I was in the right mood to enjoy the cleverness both of the overall concept and of the writing.