The Passenger

Whitlow has been asleep for 15 years during which time just about everyone he knows has become famous, moved to America, won and lost a fortune and retired to lives of embittered obscurity. How can a person cope knowing that everything they ever wanted passed them by while they slept? What this has to do with a raven that looks like Ian Curtis singing She's Lost Control on the Old Grey Whistle Test and a tramp who stinks of hair soaked in urine is anyone's guess...Magical, real and confusing, Wild's wonderful novel simultaneously unravels and ties up loose ends. I cried at the end and felt a lot better for it. Simon Crump, author of My Elvis Blackout and Neverland.