Simply an epiphany.--Kirkus, starred review
Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his
body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer.
Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual
reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of
self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change?
Darkly compelling and deeply moving, Alphabet is a psychological
exploration of one man's uncertain and often-harrowing journey towards
rehabilitation.
Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting ... I kept saying
to myself, how could she know this?"--Erwin James, convicted murderer,
author of A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook
"Sometimes novelists go too far--and sometimes they manage to
demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go."--Time Out UK
Praise for Kathy Page
"Her unforgettable prose is moody, shape-shifting, provocative and
always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate
to walk down...but will."-- Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love
Hangs Out
"Marvellously well-crafted ... I can't remember the last time I was so
compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel."--
Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet
