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From the Booker Prize-wining author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘the Blue Flower’ – this Booker Prize-shortlisted novel centres on Cambridge Fellow Fred Fairly’s search for a rational riposte to love.
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Odd, intriguing and charming. A early 20th century tale of two people - a physicist at a Cambridge college and an out-of-luck nurse apprentice from London - whose fortunes entwine because of a road accident. It's a witty and subtle portrait of a time and a people, hinting at changes to come, in physics, the world, and women's liberation. And then it even turns into a ghost story somehow. I am left baffled and enchanted, not quite sure what to make of it.
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