A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author‘Hilariously surreal. It''s a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic'' Daily Mirror‘Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ...

Such a fresh fictional voice'' EsquireIt is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District''s damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges.

Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous ‘out-of-season''...


Format Häftad Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Utgivningsdatum 2011-05-16 ISBN 9781408813768