A chance visit to the local decaying Big House presents him with the scam of a lifetime. Though a philosopher attempting to become an art historian Martin is at best an intellectual drifter, happy in his domestic life yet given to darker interludes of Faustian anguish. Meanwhile he, his wife and their small baby are off to their country cottage she has a scholarly text to complete, he thinks he has a book to write. Narrator Martin Clay is determined to change his life. John Mortimer meets David Lodge in this likeable, almost funny, over-plotted, good-ish English farce which has its moments but seems destined to live in the mind mainly as one of the more unlikely of the many unlikely Booker contenders.
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