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Genuinely subversive, Butlin’s book is a stylistic triumph. A major novel' - Irvine WelshMorris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive, after six and at weekends the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he is a music lover and a drunk.Of the past he remembers only fear, and of the future he senses even greater terror to come; he is a man struggling from moment to moment to salvage something of himself before that too slips from his grasp.On one level The Sound of My Voice tells the story of an alcoholic: a frantic attempt by some inner voice to halt an apparent need for self-destruction. More generally it presents the conflict between modern man’s cowardice and cruelty, and a desperate attempt to recover humanity.

Ron Butlin is a poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and opera librettist whose works have been broadcast in the UK and abroad and have been translated into many languages. His volumes of poetry include the award-winning Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars and Histories of Desire. His novels include Night Visits, Belonging, Ghost Moon (nominated for the international Impac Award, 2016) and more recently Billionaires' Banquet. He is the author of several children's books, Here Come the Trolls!, Day of the Trolls! and Steve & FranDan Take on the World.