The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks

I was a devotee of Banks a few years back but this rehash of his splendid earlier work The Crow Road was, a couple of vivid set pieces aside, a disappointment. The family saga suffers from irrelevant travelogues, shoehorned in and simplistic political commentary, and an underwhelming twist. The excitement and freshness of The Wasp Factory seems like an awfully long time ago.