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Engleby

Engleby

Author(s): Sebastian Faulks

Location(s): Cambridge

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1970s

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Mike Engleby has a secret…

This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns into a mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks’s new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has ever written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching – and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

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“Beautifully done… A portrait of one mind out of joint with its times, and eventually defeated by them… Witty, poignant, Engleby is as cold as a Fenland wind, as clever as a Cambridge don”...

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