The devil's footprints
By: John Burnside
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource (eBook)] /
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780385525558
Subjects: Suicide victims; Devil; Fiction
Description: Michael Gardiner has lived in Coldhaven all his life yet still feels like an outsider. Married but rather distant from his wife, he reads in the local paper that a school friend, Moira Birnie, has killed herself and her two sons by setting their car on fire; but she has spared her fourteen-year-old daughter, Hazel. Michael uneasily recalls his past connections to Moira. As teenagers, Michael and Moira had a brief romance, yet more troubling to Michael is the fact that he was responsible for the death of Moira's brother, the town bully. In the wake of the tragedy, Michael becomes obsessed with Hazel, who is just old enough to be his daughter.