Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.
Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.
Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she's quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.
- ISBN10 0385421508
- ISBN13 9780385421508
- Publish Date 1 December 1991 (first published 23 August 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nan A. Talese
- Edition In the USA ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 167
- Language English