Serenity House

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A danse macabre... [Hope] employs devastating satire and gruesome humour to counterpoint the banal with the fantastic, and does so to dazzling effect with his rapidly interchanging points of view and taut economy of style. The reader might be unsettled, even appalled, but is not likely to lose interest for a moment.' Euan Cameron, IndependentOld Max, the genial giant of Serenity House, north London's 'Premier Eventide Refuge', might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with a special interest in the War Crimes Bill, has other ideas. Then Jack arrives. An all-American boy who survives on a diet of video nasties and Chinese takeaways, he is intent on laying his hands on the contents of Max's locked cupboard. Max is haunted by dreams of the Holocaust. And the occupants of Serenity House are haunted by Jack...'Hope takes the landscape of fairy-tale, the slippery realm of the very young, and matches it, in an inspired alliance, with the equally elusive world of the very old - a place where perception and truth give way to failing memory, where human beings are at the mercy of cruel and arbitrary forces... With a surgeon's brutal precision, and a miniaturist's preternaturally developed eye for detail, Hope negotiates with his habitual elegance and humanity the many pitfalls of the Holocaust novel.' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph'Blackly hilarious... a surreal farce rigorously logical according to its own terms of reference, scabrously enjoyable, and motivated by a sense of the "real world" that is always profound and exhilaratingly sane.' Financial Times'This brilliantly executed tour de force insists on us making connections that it would be pleasant to avoid... A work of considerable imaginative intensity which works on the reader with the logic of a dream, its images taken from a society tottering under the unmanageable burden of our moral dishonesty.' Paul Binding, New Statesman£8.99Fiction www.atlantic-books.co.uk