Dimensions
129 x 198 x 22mm
From the author of 'The Mulberry Empire' comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to find out that he has just been left by his wife . . .
'My wife had gone and I didn't know where she had gone. It would have been terrible if I had liked her but I only loved her.'
John is an indexer, and a bloody good one at that. He lives in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden, and has a beautiful wife, Janet. (Yes, yes, they are called Janet and John. They know.)
But lately, things have begun to go wrong. Thanks to his flawless index for Haddock: The Story of the Fish Which Changed the World, John has become typecast, and a commission for an index for Squid Through the Ages in Poetry and Prose swiftly followed. And to cap it all, he's woken up with a terrible case of the hiccups, and Janet has left him . . .
Wonderfully funny and light, but ultimately very moving, 'The Fit' is English comic writing at its best, from one of the most talented novelists at work today.
