Patrick Farrell’s life is complex, but under control. His work takes him through the streets of South London, repossessing credit cards and searching for missing debtors. And in the evenings he visits his schizophrenic brother, Mike, who stares out of his hospital room window, convinced he’s being watched. But when Patrick’s girlfriend introduces him to a new crowd with a strange interest in astrology and the occult, his world is thrown dramatically out of kilter. This is a tricky review for me to write, if I’m being honest I didn’t enjoy this novel. I tried to, I really did, but I just didn’t get anything from it. There were some things that I did like. The relationship between Patrick and his brother Mike came across well. The scenes where the brothers interact, or in some cases don’t, were actually pretty good. Sadly, none of the others characters felt anywhere as real to me. I like to feel something for the characters I read about, doesn’t matter if that feeling is negative or positive, but in this instance I didn’t connect. The writing is absolutely fine but I wish that the plot had been just a little bit darker. I appreciate that…