<p>“Some daysI wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuineto worry about.”</p><p>When his parents’ car is hit by a train,Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while allothers around him grieve, Luke remains detached, striking up a relationshipwith a woman in a neighbouring house … andstumbling across evidence that his mother may have engaged in a longstandingextramarital affair herself.</p><p>In Luke, Laurence Miall hascrafted an unforgettable literary antihero, a man disconnected from the pain ofthose around him, yet blind to his own faults. With his clean, forcefullanguage and a familiarity with the darker corners of the male psyche, <i>BlindSpot</i> is a gripping literary debut.</p><p>“Some daysI wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuineto worry about.”</p><p>When his parents’ car is hit by a train,Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while allothers around him grieve, Luke remains detached, striking up a relationshipwith a woman in a neighbouring house … andstumbling across evidence that his mother may have engaged in a longstandingextramarital affair herself.</p><p>In Luke, Laurence Miall hascrafted an unforgettable literary antihero, a man disconnected from the pain ofthose around him, yet blind to his own faults. With his clean, forcefullanguage and a familiarity with the darker corners of the male psyche, <i>BlindSpot</i> is a gripping literary debut.</p>