num_pages: 390
description: Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of a fabulous new novel by the author of Matter and The Wasp Factory  The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!, now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, in fact, that the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has evaded the family clutches for years, is persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering—part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting—convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations will radically alter Alban's perspective forever.
language: English
title: The Steep Approach to Garbadale
titlecomplete: The Steep Approach to Garbadale
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Scotland, Banks, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Modern, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5487
places: Scotland
publisher: Abacus (Little,Brown)