Trading Futures
09 March 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail
When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and suspended it...
Details
09 March 2017224 pages
9781509806430Imprint: Picador
Reviews
With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.Daily Mail
[Trading Futures] has a Reginald Perrin charm about it and an unexpected twist in the tail, but it stays affably bleak to the end.Sunday Times
What starts as a light and droll Reggie Perrin-style novel about the fall of a middle-aged everyman, a "perfect makeweight in an identity parade", becomes surprisingly dark and intense. We see the crack-up through Matthew's eyes, which also allows for some wittily caustic observations about modern living.The Times
