Steep Approach to Garbadale B 英文原版

　　Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the
heart of Iain Banks’s fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built
its fortune on a board game called Empire! – now a hugely
successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp
wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been
evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and
persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering – part birthday
party, part Extraordinary General Meeting – convened by Win, Wopuld
matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the
family’s highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the
clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban’s past. What
drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see
Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win’s
revelations wll radically alter Alban’s perspective for ever.

　　Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice
with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984.
He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both
his mainstream and his science fiction novels.