Book description
Music, murder ... and Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly
there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and
they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. In
fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group
called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his
high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an
Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek.
Maybe they're not soulmates after all? Lastly, there's the bizarre
murder he's just witnessed. The guiding force behind The Unfortunates
lies bludgeoned to death at his feet and, unfortunately for William,
there aren't too many other suspects standing nearby ... Jonathan Coe
was born in Birmingham in 1961. His most recent novel is
The Rain Before It Falls
. He is also the author of The Accidental Woman
, A Touch of Love
, The Dwarves of Death
, What a Carve Up!
, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep
, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, The Rotter's Club
, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and The Closed Circle
. He has also published a biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson, which
won the Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two
children.
