Review
“Those who like Welsh’s novels are likely to enjoy
Under Control. . . . McNay powerfully conveys the way in which the need to feed a drug habit dominates the lives of addicts. . . . As a picture of life on the margins of society it is compassionate and understanding.”
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The Scotsman“McNay has a strong sense of his creation’s personalities . . . [he] doesn’t provide an obvious target for the reader’s sympathies. Each member of the troika possesses a queasy combination of good intentions and selfish scheming . . . it’s a story, simply observed and viscerally rendered. Norwich may never be the same again.”
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Sunday Herald (UK)
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Product Description
From prize-winning novelist Mark McNay comes an exhilarating drama of desire and deceit.
Under Control is a moving and powerful novel about everyday heroism and treachery. Charlie and Gary are struggling to keep their lives on track in an imperfect world. But when the money runs out or the drugs don’t work, love isn’t always enough.
Help is at hand in the form of social worker and guardian angel Nigel, but when his best intentions meet his compulsive desires, the fates of these three very different people are transformed for good.
