Lack

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We are proud to present an exclusive excerpt from Cecilia Knapp’s forthcoming novel LACK, out 21 May 2026 with Harper Collins’ literary imprint, The Borough Press.

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I have flicked through the stiff pages of old photo albums on the top shelf in his flat. I’ve seen the photos of him younger and fatter in the face. Obscene white shorts, sideburns and long hair, leaning against a motorbike in some dry landscape, cypress trees and a cig hanging out of the corner of his mouth. He chose those shorts. He appraised them on a hanger, tried them on. He grew his hair like that, gathered it into a small ponytail at the back. He had his tastes, his habits. Everyone’s father was once a cool photo. But who was he? I cast around for him, young, and I can’t find him real. Only a blurred character in a pair of...

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