New York: Norton, (1997). Award-winning writer's first novel to be published in the US, a pyschological thriller, a novel of gradually growing horror: "Rob and Karen Catto are a newly married young couple settling into their lives together on the northeast coast of Scotland. Rob's job as a janitor at the local school involves him in both the lives of his students and issues of security. So he takes sharp notice of a hulking figure in a parka lurking around the edges of the school, leering through windows, and squatting in an abandoned concrete bunker. As unpleasant and unsettling incidents multiply, Rob's suspicions tilt into obsession." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-393316165.