Author:Paul Hoffman
When Steven Grlscz saves a young woman from throwing herself in front of a train he finds himself consumed by a love affair which transforms her from a suicidal, angry anorexic into a happy and beautiful young woman. Then she vanishes without trace.
Across the Thames on the morning George Winnicott, former head of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is to begin his new job in charge of the City of London's most powerful anti-fraud body, he wakes from a nightmare screaming that he knows the meaning of life. Later that day, a huge bomb explodes in the centre of London.
How are these events linked? What connects modern economics, a new take on the vampire concept, parachuting, pornography, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, financial fraud, terrorism, aliens, artificial intelligence, the meaning of life and the hardest crossword clue in the world?
13 years in the writing, this is a novel that engages with the way the modern world works - and in admitting that contemporary life is complex, impenetrable and often terrifying, it also asserts that there are ways to see the patterns emerging from the chaos.
'The only writer, English or American, with the guts to take on the modern world in all its terrifying complexity'
—— The Week'This is fiction on a grand and ambitious scale...inspires sensations of terror, nausea, bemusement and exhilaration'
—— Daily TelegraphA comedy of manners ... charmingly told.
—— Financial TimesOne to watch.
—— Image Magazine, IrelandThis fast paced debut gives us the age-old dilemma of family struggle told in frank funny language by a new name to watch.
—— Nottingham Evening PostA gritty, sharp, social comedy. Like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, but funnier.
—— Elle MagazineA delightful first novel about a young Indian called Mousumi visiting her sophisticated relations in London ... A coming-of-age story with a difference.
—— Oxford TimesHugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be
—— Mail on SundayTriumphantly good
—— The Sunday TimesThe prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour, intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but the most misanthropic
—— BooksellerThere is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed
—— Literary ReviewThis modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world
—— Sunday Sport
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