One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work.
So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?
| ISBN: | 9780571294862 |
| Publication date: | 3rd January 2013 |
| Author: | John Lanchester |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 247 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |