All Quiet On The Orient Express Av Magnus Mills

<p><u><b>A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author</b></u><br><br><b>‘Hilariously surreal. It''s a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic''</b> <i>Daily Mirror</i><br><br><b>‘Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice''</b> <i>Esquire</i><br><br>It 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.<br><br>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''...</p>