Follow-up novel a masterful study of bereavement

MICK LITTLE is from Glasgow.

He’s the protagonist of Waterline, the follow-up to Ross Raisin’s acclaimed debut novel, In God’s Country. He has just buried his wife of 35 years. She has died of cancer, most likely as a result of the asbestos that he used to unwittingly drag home to their house during the 20 years he spent working on the Clyde shipyards. The guilt and the grief are tearing him apart. Slowly.