London and the South-East

About the book

'One of the great English novels of recent years' Rachel Cusk

'Compulsively readable' Independent on Sunday

'Superb' Financial Times

A discontented ad salesman finds his life changed, in the wryly funny and addictive novel from Booker-shortlisted David Szalay

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life - professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wishes there was something he could do about it.

And 'something' seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul's sales patter, his life and that...