Description
This extraordinary, complex and beautifully crafted first novel heralds the arrival of a major new writing talent.' Time Out
A young pianist is making his debut. His parents, friends, and some of his lovers are scattered in the audience. As the music fills the hall, his thoughts and theirs recall the events and the feelings that bind them to one another and which now form part of what they are - loving or predatory, open or secretive.
With unerring candour Christopher Osborn explores love in all its guises: a mother's obsessive love for a son; a father's love for his hidden fantasies; the love of friends and the love of strangers; the love of the opposite sex and the love of one's own...
'Christopher Osborn's astonishing first novel, A Sense of Touch, celebrates tactility, taking great jolting electric leaps between the poles of sacrament and nightmare... it is precisely the grim oddities of desire that it deals in so unflusteredly, that makes this fictional debut so magnetic.' Observer
A Sense of Touch is at once a serious literary novel and a distinctive piece of writing possessed of a strong erotic core.' Gay Times...
ISBN:9780006543909
