Stonemouth
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| Author | Iain Banks |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | 5 April 2012 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 368 pp |
| ISBN | 1408702509 |
Stonemouth is a 2012 novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. The novel was published on 5 April 2012 by Little, Brown and Company and follows a man returning to a small seaport town after being forced to flee five years earlier. The Irish Times picked the book as one of their "Books to Read in 2012".[1]
Stewart Gilmour returns to Stonemouth, a fictional seaport town north of Aberdeen, for a funeral. It is five years since he ran away to London after a sexual indiscretion at a wedding. Stonemouth is controlled by two rival gangs, the Murstons and the MacAvetts, and Gilmour was engaged to a member of the former clan before he had to leave.[2]
