Laura Bolton is dead, but neither her husband nor her mother will permit her to disappear.

Andrew remains haunted by her presence even while sleeping with another woman; her mother preserves her memory as something close to a shrine. Around them, the dead begin to speak, resisting the second death that arrives when the living finally forget.

Following the erotic obsession of Damage, Hart turns here to grief as another form of possession. Moving between the voices of the living and the dead, Oblivion asks whether memory keeps the beloved alive or merely prevents everyone else from living. A cold, theatrical and psychologically claustrophobic novel about sex, mourning and the violence concealed inside remembrance.

First edition, first printing. Chatto & Windus, 1995. Hardback with dust jacket. Good condition, with tanning, rubbing and edge wear to the dust jacket.