The Fit - Philip Hensher

From the author of The Mulberry Empire comes a short, delicious, rather disorienting novel about an indexer who wakes up one morning to find out that he has just been left by his wife

My wife had gone and I didnt know where she had gone. It would have been terrible if I had liked her but I only loved her.

John is an indexer, and a bloody good one at that. He lives in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden, and has a beautiful wife, Janet. (Yes, yes, they are called Janet and John. They know.)

But lately, things have begun to go wrong. Thanks to his flawless index for Haddock: The Story of the Fish Which Changed the World, John has become typecast, and a commission for an index for Squid Through the Ages in Poetry and Prose swiftly followed. And to cap it all, hes woken up with a terrible case of the hiccups, and Janet has left him

Wonderfully funny and light, but ultimately very moving, The Fit is English comic writing at its best, from one of the most talented novelists at work today.

ISBN: 9780007174829

Pages: 326

Paperback

Harper Perennial, 2005

Good condition; page edges mildly tanned

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