Erskine's Box
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Erskine Flesching, our unreliable narrator, admits that he's 40; that he returned three years ago to his childhood home by the sea to live with his mother, who he hasn't seen since he was 10; and that he has been a successful opera singer. What he won't spell out is which part of him a dog bit off when he was a child; that what he obsessively carves out of wood are penises; or why so many people from his past - father, sister, lover and patroness - seem to be dead. And he appears to be addressing a young woman who has stolen both his heart and secrets, and is locked up in his private sanctuary. Is she dead too Can he be trusted Is this just wish fulfilment or a madman's confession Like a demented spider, Erskine Flesching spins his victims and his readers into his web. By the end you don't know who's been had.
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Praise for Erskine's Box
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The skill of Lloyd's writing makes it a real page-turner, a truly promising debut. - Charlotte Mosley, Daily MailLloyd is a lapdancer of a writer ... damn nasty, and all the better for that - The FaceDeliciously macabre ... The gradual unravelling of [Erskine's] myth-making as he returns to his childhood home after 30 years lends suspense to this ribald verbal feast - ArenaUtterly compelling. This is a spellbinding book which will work its (black) magic on you and keep you up long past your bedtime. - Marissa Burgess, Big Issue in the North (***** )Kym Lloyd is clearly a very imaginative writer, and ERSKINE'S BOX is one of the most original novels you're likely to come across this year. - Shirley Kelly, Irish ExaminerOne of the most twisted and arresting debuts since Iain Banks' THE WASP FACTORY, with its intensely scripted story narrated by a dubious madman. Lloyd has the capacity to disturb without conscience, taking the reader into a fearsome mind and then letting all hell erupt. It is truly a remarkably disturbing experience. - HQ Magazine [Australia]Consuming and chilling - Waterstone's Books QuarterlyStartlingly lovely prose ... It's faultless ... Lloyd carries it off by that simplest of expedients - being brilliant. - Independent on Sunday
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