John Fraser's latest novel shows how confessions are less about contrition than about seeking accomplices and pardoners - though there is a nod to various 'confessors' - Augustine, Rousseau. Confessions starts with an invocation to addiction, those who take on that burden, and those who will take it on or share it. The story follows the branches of a family tree, rooted in the life of an alcoholic and his accomplice-therapist, and their descendants...