The Fall

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Published by Little Brown, 2003, 1st UK Edition, D/w (some fading to spine), Nr. Fine.   Fiction.   Set partly in wartime Britain, partly in the anarchic world of British rock climbing in the early seventies, The Fall is about many kinds of falling: off mountains, into love, out of love, from grace.  The novel follows two stories that are interlinked: the life and times of Jamie Mattewson, a world famous mountaineer and his friend and one time climbing partner, Rob Dewar.  But the other story that moves behind this is the story of their parents during the years of the Second World War.  How the one impinges on the other and how memory and betrayal have their effects across the generations is the central theme of the novel.  Winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2003.