num_pages: 244
description: Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother.With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney's first novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society and of family.
language: English
title: Remedy is None
titlecomplete: Remedy is None
characters: Charlie Grant
genres: Fiction, Scotland
ratings_count: 61
places: Glasgow, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
publisher: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd