The Steep Approach to Garbadale

By Iain Banks

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Alban McGill is a black sheep of the wealthy Wopuld family, whose fortune rests on a board game called Empire! When an American corporation offers to buy the family firm, his cousin tracks him down and persuades him to attend a gathering at Garbadale, the family's Highland estate. There the family must vote on the sale, and Alban has to face his past, including a lost first love and the long-hidden truth about his mother's death.

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