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Book Synopsis''Joyous.'' Observer
''Tremendously entertaining.'' Irish Times
''Truly original.'' The Times
** A Times and Guardian Book of the Year **
We make lazy assumptions about the centre of things and its location. Who's to say that the centre of things isn't in a corner, way over there?'
Nobody can be a person twenty-fours hours a day it just can't be done. At night the sets dissolve and the performance falls away We're off the books.'
That's John Cromer talking, in this fresh instalment of his lifelong saga. For John, embarking on a new stage of life in 1970s Cambridge, charm and wit aren''t just assets, they are survival skills. It may be a case of John against the world. If so, don't be in too much of a hurry to bet on the world.
Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, Caret is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an ad
