Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
Huckleberry Finn meets The Rosie Project, with added window cleaning - the Desmond Elliot Prize-listed comic debut of the year, now in paperback.
Meet Gunter Glass: ex-milkman and aspiring window-cleaner, struggling to find his way in the modern world.
Ever since a childhood visit to a glass-blower's workshop, Gunter has had an unusual fixation with glass. When a minor adventure up the spire of Salisbury cathedral turns him into a local celebrity - and gives him a taste for extreme heights - Gunter is called to his dream job: cleaning Europe's tallest skyscraper, London's Shard.
Enchantingly under-prepared for the bright lights of the city - and philosophically under-equipped for sharing a flat with an eccentric German intellectual called the Steppenwolf - Gunter must navigate his own way through life, armed only with his mother's homespun wisdom and knowledge gleaned from haphazard wanderings through Wikipedia. But will his innocence put him on a collision course with the baffling modern world?
