He also seeks a resolution of certain questions about his family background, and closure of his relationship with Sophie. McGill is approached by another cousin, Fielding, to help prevent the sale of the family company to the American Spraint Corporation. He is distracted from affairs of business by his relations with his family and with his teenage love, his first cousin Sophie. A US firm, the Spraint Corporation, wants to buy them out.Īlban McGill, a member of the Wopuld family, has sold most of his shares in the family firm, and resigned from his job in the company to become a forester, but has had to retire on medical grounds because of white finger. The book describes the Wopuld family, who made a fortune on a board game called Empire!, now a successful computer game. The novel had at least two working titles, Matter and Empire! Plot introduction The Steep Approach to Garbadale is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 2007.
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