Small World
  • Published: 15 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780552774567
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $35.00

Small World

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1 Sep 2010
Paperback
15 Mar 2009
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Can we ever be truly in control of our own destinies, or are our lives entirely shaped by random events and unknown people? Small World is an entirely contemporary and engrossing page-turner which explores universal themes of love, death, friendship, marriage, madness, and redemption, unifying them all through this central question.

Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet, and some you nearly meet, will have an impact on the way your day goes.

Small World is the story of a group of men and women, living and working in a city, who are connected through love, work, friendship, or simply by virtue of proximity. We connect with the hearts and minds of characters including an all-coping housewife, a stressed out working mother, a put-upon nanny, a long-suffering journalist, an Indian waiter who dreams of stardom, a grieving shop assistant, a stand-up comic and a psychotic policeman - all of whom speak directly to us about their innermost thoughts, fears and desires in a series of interwoven first-person narratives.
  • Published: 15 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780552774567
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Matt Beaumont

Matt Beaumont has never worked in the advertising business and he has never met anyone who does. In fact, he has never seen a single advert in his life. Not one!

He has a vaguely informative website: www.letstalkaboutme.com

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Praise for Small World

A page-turner and a triumph...this book makes Beaumont's position as one of Britain's best comedy writers more permanent

Daily Express

An involving drama with an unexpectedly dramatic climax...this has an ingeniously constructed plot and real emotional heft

Daily Telegraph

An extraordinary novel...as the compelling stories unfold, we are party to every thought and dream. It's like unravelling mysteries behind the faces you see every day on your journey to work...intriguing and compelling.

Heat

A feelgood novel about circumstance and chance encounter

Daily Mirror

Beaumont has spread his wings with Small World, ditching the out and out comedy for some sharp social analysis, but retaining his knack for a witty, punchy story

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