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Supposing one day at the office, you simply forgot why you were there...Would anybody notice? Would anybody care? Would it make any difference, so long as you went on doing the job you were paid to do? Lorna comes to work one morning in a buzzing newspaper office, high up in a shining tower block. A colleague offers to bring her a smart new sandwich and fancy coffee in a paper cup. Emails, boyfriends, sparkling parties follow...The problem is that Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember what she does, where she came from, where she's supposed to go next. An acid yet poetic comedy set in the booming London of the 1990s, "The Brainstorm" is very funny about offices and newspapers, about friends and enemies, about ambition, love and life. It's also about memory and forgetfulness, and the importance of learning from the past.
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'a funny and inventive book' -- Scotland on Sunday
"Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole" -- Time Out, April 2007
'Eccentric and brilliant, this taps into the psyche of the modern
office and all its madness' -- Eve Magazine, February, 2007
'The Brainstorm is one of the best debuts he's ever read' -- Sunday Herald, Colin Waters on the Aberdeen Word Festival, quotes Alan Warner
'This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive' -- Sunday Express, February 4, 2007
'[An] astringent comedy of manners...This is a stylish novel that
finishes with a soft flourish'
-- The List, February 6, 2007
`smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive'
-- Observer
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"Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole" -- Time Out, April 2007
'Eccentric and brilliant, this taps into the psyche of the modern
office and all its madness' -- Eve Magazine, February, 2007
'The Brainstorm is one of the best debuts he's ever read' -- Sunday Herald, Colin Waters on the Aberdeen Word Festival, quotes Alan Warner
'This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive' -- Sunday Express, February 4, 2007
'[An] astringent comedy of manners...This is a stylish novel that
finishes with a soft flourish'
-- The List, February 6, 2007
`smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive'
-- Observer
The first novel by one of Britain's most brilliant young critics, a comedy of manners set in the newspaper world of London in the 1990s.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0224078046
- ISBN 13 9780224078047
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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