📚 Finished reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

I’d heard grim and dark things about this book which made me regularly put off reading it until now. It is certainly disturbing, depicting the life, thought processes and cruel and violent acts of Frank, an teenager isolated by his detached and confused mental state and his physical location.

I can see it being rather controversial, especially the somewhat implausible (to me) ending. But it’s a compulsive read for any fans of darkly gothic genres.