The figure around whom all the other characters in the novel revolve is the celebrity engineer with his supermodel wife, who can make anyone believe in him — including, unfortunately, himself.
Gull is an intelligent, witty and moving reconstruction of the bizarre circumstances that gave birth to one of the world’s most iconic cars.
Reviews
‘One of the best contemporary Irish novelists… Glenn Patterson has become the most serious and humane chronicler of Northern Ireland over the past thirty years.’
Colm Tóibín
‘No other novelist has proved as capable of capturing the heart of modern Belfast.’
Sunday Tribune
‘This is an author whose vigour and flair keep us reading avidly as he exercises his capacity to make the everyday engrossing.’
Independent
About Glenn Patterson
GLENN PATTERSON was born and lives in Belfast. He is the author of nine previous novels and three works of non-fiction. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film Good Vibrations, based on the Belfast music scene of the 1970s.