The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan - ISBN: 9781529405194
Paperback
Murder houses, fairy folk, and secrets lurking on a Scottish Isle.

The Good Neighbours

Winner of the 2025 Prix Medicis Etranger

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    13 September 2022

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Summary

WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDICIS ETRANGER 2025

Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention to things that would otherwise pass unseen and maybe he’s right …

Starting work on her new project - photographing murder houses - she returns to the island where she grew up for the first time since she left for Glasgow when…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529405194
ISBN-10:152940519X
Author:Nina Allan
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:13 September 2022
Weight:220g
Dimensions:248mm x 124mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect

Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect * Guardian (on The Dollmaker) *
Nina Allan weaves a haunting, intricate tale that masterfully blurs genre lines. You’ll want to savour every page * CultureFly (2021 picks) *
A captivating exploration of community, tragedy and memory. Nina Allan’s writing is enthralling. – Irenosen Okojie
A compulsive and twisting read … Nina Allan has created a surging and artistic narrative that lingers like a cold breath down your neck at the turn of the last page. – Fiona Murphy * Mummy Pages *
a compelling murder mystery filled with superstition, fairy folk and murder houses, set on Nina’s beloved Isle of Bute … spellbinding * Scots Magazine *
Allan keeps multiple plates spinning without ever losing psychological coherence as a portrait of its self-denying protagonist’s engrossingly complicated inner life. Satisfying, sophisticated and very finely done. * Daily Mail *
This book cleverly weaves the imagined and the real to create a haunting story that relives the past. * Candis *
[A] splendid crime narrative of memory, compulsion and the effects of trauma. * Guardian *

About The Author

Nina Allan

Nina Allan is a novelist and short story writer. Her previous fiction has won several prizes, including the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel, the Novella Award and the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire for Best Translated Work. She lives and works in Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute. The Good Neighbours is her fourth novel.

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