The Affirmation
Christopher PriestThe Affirmation is a compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that isn't - partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the mark of one of Britain's finest novelists at the very height of his powers.
Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in...
"Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace.
" - Francis King, The Spectator "An original and haunting novel.
" - London Times "A brilliant and sustained novel of imaginative power.