Stonemouth
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from Wish List failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Stonemouth
Buy Now for $25.99
-
Narrated by:
-
Peter Kenny
-
By:
-
Iain Banks
About this listen
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile, his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up.
An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than sea fog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. And although there's supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime family, it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long a quick drop into the cold grey Stoun begins to look like the soft option, and as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him, Stu uncovers ever darker stories, and his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated.
Tough, funny, fast-paced and touching, Stonemouth cracks open adolescence, love, brotherhood, and vengeance in a rite-of-passage novel like no other.
©2012 Iain Banks (P)2012 Hachette DigitalPeter Kenny has read all of Banks’ audiobooks and they are both Scots. The book is set in Scotland and Kenny let’s fly with his authentic accent this time giving a real authenticity to his read.
I just loved this and was very sad when it ended- even though the ending was extremely satisfying.’
Banks at his best
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.