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Book SynopsisFollowing the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his ‘difficult third’ - but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his formal ambition and remarkable imagination harder than ever. A book of considerable emotional daring and sometimes Wordsworthian sweep, Tramp in Flames is the work of a meticulous archivist of our cultural memory, and sets the palimpsest of the present hour on a light-box. It also shows Farley rapidly becoming one of the definitive English voices of the age.
'Resonant without being flashy . . . lines that will stick with you for a really, really long time' Mark Haddon
'Funny, observant, brilliantly musical . . . streetwise, erudite, elusive, but very accessible' Ruth Padel, Financial Times
'Farley is one of our most vital and engaging voices. Even a title can twist at the familiar, commanding our attentio
