Glover's Mistake

Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

The second novel from exciting, young novelist Nick Laird - an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary London.



When David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt and heartbreak. As David plays reluctant witness (and more) to James and Ruth's escalating love affair, he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life.

Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the fault lines of desire, truth and jealousy. With wit and compassion, Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance, among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.

About Nick Laird
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and until recently worked as a lawyer in London. His poems, essays and reviews have been published in various anthologies and journals, including the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. Laird's two poetry collections, 'To a Fault' and 'On Purpose', are published by Faber and Faber, and his first novel, 'Utterly Monkey', was published by Fourth Estate in 2005.

(BK-9780007197514)

SKU BK-9780007197514
Barcode # 9780007197514
Brand Fourth Estate Ltd
Artist / Author Nick Laird
Shipping Weight 0.1800kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.600m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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