All Quiet on the Orient Express

Magnus Mills

From Shelf: Good books about bad jobs as featured by Lara Williams in The Guardian 22/6/22

'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror

A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily Mirror'Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice' EsquireIt is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous 'out-of-season'...

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