Under Control
Mark McNay
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Gary and his girlfriend Charlie are struggling to keep their lives on track in an imperfect world. When the money runs out or the drugs don’t work, love is not always enough.
Nigel appears like a guardian angel, offering the chance to improve their fortunes, but as best intentions meet compulsive desires a dark love triangle emerges, one which will transform the fates of these three very different people for good.
Under Control is an irresistibly dark modern drama, a stunningly ambitious and impressive follow-up to McNay’s award-winning debut, Fresh.
“A book so visceral and emotionally manipulative that you want to make it go away and not let it out of your hand simultaneously”
scotland On Sunday
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“Those who like Welsh’s novels are likely to enjoy Under Control…as a picture of life on the margins of society it is compassionate and understanding”
scotsman
“McNay looks determined to burrow deeper into our failed society with every novel”
herald
“Tough-minded and tender-hearted, but also drop-dead funny.”
the Times On Fresh
“Menacing, witty, with snappy no nonsense dialogue and an umambiguously shocking ending, McNay’s debut is every bit as fresh as its title.”
guardian On Fresh
Mark McNay
Mark McNay was born in 1965 and brought up in a mining village in central Scotland. After a failed electrical engineering course and fifteen years doing odd jobs, Mark joined the UEA creative writing course in 1999. He graduated in 2003 with distinction.
His first novel, Fresh, won the Arts Foundation New Fiction Award 2007 and the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Mark currently lives in Wales.