A brilliantly written portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the senses telling his version of the Bible & discovering what its like to be human
- in Clerkenwell. Now Your million questions. All in the end resolvable into one: Whats it like being me? What for heavens sake is it like being me? In a nutshell (which thanks to me is the way you like it in these hurrying & fragmented times) its hard. Finally the other side of the story. The Prince of Darkness has been given one last chance: he will be readmitted to the company of his fellow angels if he agrees to live out a human life. Highly sceptical (naturally) the Old Deal-maker negotiates a trial period
- a summer holiday in a human body with all the delights of the flesh. The body though turns out to be that of Declan Gunn a depressed writer living in Clerkenwell interrupted mid-suicide. Making the best of a bad situation Luce himself takes to writing
- to explain to strip back the Biblical spin to help us see the whole thing from his point of view. & to knock that Jesus off his perch. Beset by distractions miscalculations & all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to Lucifer slowly begins to learn what its like to be us. Glen Duncans brilliantly written new novel is an investigation of the world of the senses
- the seductiveness of evil & the affection which keeps us human.