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|title=Wreaking

|author=James Scudamore

|publisher=Vintage Books

|date=July 2014

|website=http://www.jamesscudamore.com/

|summary=An elegant, hypnotic novel about three characters who struggle to communicate and to understand their shared past, which centres around a traumatic event in an abandoned mental hospital.

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A derelict mental hospital, gloomy railway arches, the bleak countryside of the English coast. It all comes at us in grey flashes. If ''Wreaking'' was a film, it would saturated with cool tones. It’s an easy novel to visualise: Scudamore’s spare, elegant style creates an almost palpable atmosphere.