Benson is a 63-year-old writer who is losing command of his former skill, and directs his literary efforts towards a group of disparate lonely people to whom he teaches creative writing. He meets up with an old war comrade, a down-and-out victim of Thatcher's Britain, and things change. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Barry Unsworth is the author of many novels including "Mooncranker's Gift", "Stone Virgin" and "Pascali's Island", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1980.
- ISBN10 0140119922
- ISBN13 9780140119923
- Publish Date 25 January 1990 (first published 12 September 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English