Concrete Island Condition:Well Read an uncertain present and a

an uncertain present and a hugely important future

The growing heaps of other books in which she loses-and finds-herself

best-selling author Cynthia Heald (Becoming a Woman Of

one of the largest islands in the laguna

the McKitterick Prize winning

Concrete Island Condition:Well Read an uncertain present and aOn a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitlanda wickedly modern Robinson Crusoerealizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer