Neil Raffan

Concert for a Dead Piano Neil Raffan

Eighteen going on? Actually, Ian Roberts is eighteen and just going on - it is 1971 and with his school days about to end what next? Anything? Will he/won't he go to university? With his beloved Grandma Craig as a sounding board Ian's prose straddles the child/adult fault line - uncertain on which side to fall. Does he have to fall? A young Aberdonian's growing pains, what have Camus and Gide done to his mind? Despite himself this is a journey of self-discovery, accompanied, as in Cannibals eat bods, by Ian Ceri and Morag Kennedy.