A Clue to the Exit: A Novel
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A Clue to the Exit: A Novel

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.

His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.

  • TitleA Clue to the Exit: A Novel
  • BrandPicador
  • ManufacturerPicador
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ReleaseDate2015-09-01T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9781250046031