From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times.Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories hav
'THE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT' THE TIMES'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people'Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Bir
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on pa
