Close Ups

“The girl’s face, of course, is averted from the camera, but I have only to look at it to know the meaning of the anguish it is hiding, and the entire story of how it came to be like it is at the exact moment I pressed the exposure button”.

Alan Gould’s novel, an extraordinary illumination of the shadowy, intimate relationship between a schoolteacher and his student, has fascinated readers and won broad critical acclaim.

As secret lives are exposed through the eyes of voyeur photographer Neal Poyntz, the reader is also caught in the frame, also the subject of observation.