A dark, richly odd and disconcerting world… Devastating and brilliant,A small but perfectly formed piece of darkest noir fiction told in spare, mordant prose . . . Recounted with disconcerting matter?of-factness, this marvellously unpredictable story is surreal and horrific in equal measure,Ennui, dislocation, alienation, estrangement – these are the colours on Garnier’s palette. His books are out there on their own: short, jagged and exhilarating