The first novel in twenty years from 'the most under-appreciated of our living fiction writers' (John Burnside)
This book "focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. Faced with the regular stuff of life--work, aspiration, marriage, age, divorce, bereavement--his ordinary plight is sharpened, becoming increasingly urgent. Having lived in a modern condition, confusing pleasure with happiness, wanting the dream to deliver, what do you do when you notice the shadows begin to lengthen on the lawn?"--
