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All Quiet on the Orient Express, Magnus Mills This is the second novel by the Booker shortlisted author, Magnus Mills. It’s described as a ‘tragi-comedy’ that features an unnamed narrator who is dealing with increasingly sinister and unnerving situations. The surreal novel is set in the Lake District and focuses on a lone camper who is enjoying the solitude of his surroundings before embarking on a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges- unaware of the path that this will take him down.
Synopsis:
As the wet Lakeland fells grow misty and the holiday season draws to a close; as the tourists trickle away from the campsite, along with the sunshine, and the hot water, and the last of the good beer - a man accidentally spills a tin of green paint, and thereby condemns himself to death.
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