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A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a
world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many
similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar
and disturbingly close to home. It is comic writing at its best - and it
is Magnus Mills' most ambitious, enjoyable and rewarding novel to date. >
Far away, in the ancient Empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are
falling apart. The Imperial Orchestra is presided over by a conductor
who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure
that the postmen can deliver in daylight regardless of how that affects
everyone else, and the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the
observatory telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot.
But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor,
who has gone abroad and communicates only by penny post, a sinister and
unfamiliar enemy is getting closer and closer...
'Like P. G. Wodehouse, Mills has created his own deeply English world,
rich in comic possibilities' Independent 'Imagine The Office crossed
with Brave New World ... hilarious' Daily Express 'Comedy's blackest,
funniest and most astute practitioner' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant,
hilariously surreal. Like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett
play ... fantastic' Daily Mirror >A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest
and Looked In
is Magnus Mills's most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a
world that, although strange and distant, contains rather too many
similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar
and disturbingly close to home. It is comic writing at its best - and it
is Magnus Mills' most ambitious, enjoyable and rewarding novel to date. >
Far away, in the ancient Empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are
falling apart. The Imperial Orchestra is presided over by a conductor
who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure
that the postmen can deliver in daylight regardless of how that affects
everyone else, and the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the
observatory telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot.
But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor,
who has gone abroad and communicates only by penny post, a sinister and
unfamiliar enemy is getting closer and closer...
