The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good

From the Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The Sea, The Sea</i> comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.<br>  <br> John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping.<br>  <br> In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray€s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of violence poison an atmosphere already electric with adolescent quarrels and intrigue. After a swim into the underworld, Ducane begins to realize that niceness is not enough.<br>  <br>"A feast."--<i>The Guardian</i>