South London, May 2010: foxes are behaving strangely, Burmese immigrants are going missing, & everyone is trying to get hold of a new party drug calledGlow. A young man suffering from a rare sleep disorder will uncover the connections between all these anomalies in this taut, riveting new novel by a young writer hailed byThe Guardianas “playful, arresting, unnerving, opulent, rude and—above all—deliciously, startlingly, exuberantly fresh.”Twenty-two-year-oldRafspends his days walkingRose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, & his nights at raves in warehouses & launderettes. When his friend Theo vanishes without a trace,Raf’sefforts to find him will lead straight into the heart of a global corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, he’s falling in love with a beautiful young woman he met at one of those raves, but he’ll soon discover that there is far more toCherishthan meets the eye.Combining the pace, drama, & explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark intellectual, linguistic, & comedic pyrotechnics,GlowisNed Beauman’smost compelling, virtuosic, & compulsively readable novel yet.°°°Ned Beaumanwas born in 1985 & studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is the author ofBoxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book & the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction;The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won the Encore Award & a Somerset Maugham Award; & the highly acclaimedGlow&Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London.