The Scheme for Full Employment

Magnus Mills

From Shelf: Magnus Mills is quiet, deadpan, funny and peculiar, you should read him immediately!

'A unique talent ... Mills's novels are among the best and most original in recent English fiction' Literary Review

'A unique talent ... Mills's novels are among the best and most original in recent English fiction' Literary Review 'An enjoyable novel by a truly original writer' Sunday Times The Scheme was designed to provide an honest wage for an honest day's labour. Men driving identical, rust-resistant Univans deliver Univan parts to strategically spaced warehouses. Simple, self-perpetuating and efficient, it seems destined to last forever. But when some drivers begin leaving early and developing delivery sidelines, the workforce is divided into two camps: Flat-Dayers and Early Swervers. As tensions mount, the whole system threatens to fall apart...

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