In a London boarding-house, relationships shift and change between the men and women living there, while the landlady looks on in judgement. Eventually the situation reaches an explosive point of no return. Sam North won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1990 for The Automatic Man.
- ISBN10 0749398760
- ISBN13 9780749398767
- Publish Date 11 March 1993 (first published 8 April 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Minerva
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English