Book description
In an attempt to escape his bizarre family and stagnation up North, tv
soap-addict Alistair Strange moves to Fulham where he lands a job
editing for a vanity publisher. It is an odd kind of job, but he is used
to oddness: his parents are strange, his elder brother is strange his
name is strange... The behaviour of his lovely but troubled flat-mate
Martha, however, is odder than anything that Alistair has encountered
before. Can he rescue Martha? Can he find out what his family is hiding?
And is life better than tv? Matthew Baylis was born in Nottingham in
1971 and educated in Liverpool and Cambridge. After working as a
literary agent, he went on to write storylines for BBC 1's 'EastEnders',
and then to help the United Nations and British Council create the first
pan-East African soap opera. He is the author of the novel
The Last Ealing Comedy
and has written for a number of newspapers, including the Guardian,
Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, Daily Mail,
Independent on Sunday
and Evening Standard.
