<p>Martin Cox is a brilliant but untrained draftsman in hisearly twenties. He is rich, damaged, obsessive.</p><p>Shadowhurst Hall, remote, desolate and forgotten, exerts apeculiar pull. The country landscape, a world of shades and shadows, bothconfuses and beguiles Martin, a man more comfortable in black and white, with factsand numbers.</p><p>As he explores the house, the landscape and its history itleads him on a journey ¿ back in time to two world wars, and forwards, unexpectedly,towards a healing. A novel of memory and history, and of the scars left by unacknowledgeddamage and how they can shape us, <i>TheDraftsman </i>is also a story of renewal.</p>