Author:Fiona Campbell
Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures.
Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...
Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.
This is an absolutely brilliant first novel
—— Kate Saunders , The TimesFiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture
—— Catherine Taylor , GuardianKenji is the kind of luckless dreamer it's hard not to root for
—— Hepzibah Anderson , ObserverAn enjoyably sentimental journey of self-discovery, the novel betrays no hint of dislocation between author and subject matter
—— Financial TimesIf you like Philippa Gregory or Barbara Erskine, take a step back in time with Jean Plaidy
—— Woman and Home'One of the country's most widely read novelists
—— Sunday TimesJean Plaidy has already established herself among the foremost of current historical novelists
—— Birmingham MailJean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity
—— Guardian'A grand recounting of the second Punic War...Durham's epic is truly a big, magnificent, sprawling story complete with a sizable cast of compelling characters, intricately drawn battle scenes and fluid, graceful prose'
—— Booklist (starred review)
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