Never Was

Part hallucination, part queer bildungsroman, Never Was is a beautifully strange novel about grief, addiction and working-class masculinity, taking us from a limbo of lost dreams to a small salt-mining town and exploring the way identity is both inherited and re-invented. Daniel sits on a clifftop in the aftermath of a party at Fin''s mansion, looking out over a junky sea. Daniel''s not sure why they''re there, or who Fin is, even though Fin seems to be somebody famous. To find out, Daniel ...