In 1986, the author was awarded the Booker Prize for this novel which is a tragi-comedy about middle-aged Welsh people approaching old age and sobriety. The author also wrote "Lucky Jim", "Stanley and the Women", "Russian Hide and Seek" and "The Riverside Villas Murder".
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