Tell

Curtis Doyle, a self-made businessman and art collector, has vanished from his palatial home in the Scottish Highlands.
In the wake of his disappearance, the woman who worked as his gardener is being interviewed for a possible film about her employer.
A work of strange and intoxicating immediacy, exploring wealth, the art world, and the intimacy and distance between social classes.
Tell is a probing and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people’s.

‘Always well crafted, this novel is engaging in parts and digressive in others, which adds to its realism, capturing how people chatter their way down alleys, rarely hewing to the main road of a tale…. The buildup in Tell is perpetual, a sense that an explanation must be coming. But the author diverges from expectations and converges on reality, where remembering is not the same as understanding. Abruptly, someone may just disappear, and all that remains is the sight of a figure wandering across a bridge — no splash heard, just the fading ripples of “why.”’
— Tom Rachman, New York Times