After another minute he saw he was right: The boat flattened, presenting a clear profile, then continued away from the island, growing smaller by the minute. Kane watched it go, feeling the heat of the metal beneath him and the slow breathing of the boy at his side. By the time Connor opened his eyes again he seemed calmer, as if he’d decided something, and the boat was a speck against the darkness of the ocean.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to Michael Grist, Clare Smith, Zoe Hood, Jaime Levine, Veronique Baxter, Sara Langham, Gráinne Fox, Nicky Lund, Alice Howe, Heather Tamarkin, Alison Kerr Miller, Michelle Triant, Fariza Hawke.

Thanks also to New Writing North and my colleagues and students at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Most of all, thanks to Jihyon, for everything, and Taehee, to whom the novel is dedicated. Welcome.

About the Author

© Eamonn McCabe

Oliver Harris was born in London in 1978. He has an MA in Shakespeare studies and a PhD in psychoanalysis. He writes occasionally for the Times Literary Supplement.

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