A Boy's Guide To Track And Field

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Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. His mother (46, courtroom artist) & step-father (49, AA patrol man), make no secret of the fact that he's become a cuckoo in the nest but since Dawn (27, animal rights activist) left him for a dog trainer, Lem has returned to his natural state of emotional drift. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life -careers, mortgages, marriages, homes, friends. With no girlfriend, no place of his own, no ambition & no prospects, the only real direction in his life seem to be the tracks of the Victoria line which take him daily to work. There, the likes of Emily, Nokia, Jason & Kemal stubbornly resist his efforts to make the Fibonacci code fun. One day in June, Lem gets the distinct feeling that he is unravelling; he needs to take control of his life & change it radically before he reaches the end of the line, but who will show him the way?

Original, inventive & wry, Sabrina Broadbent's second novel is a vision of uncertainty, the unsaid & the untouched; a place where people lose their bearings & ultimately, a place of realignment. A Boy's Guide to Track & Field starts at Walthamstow & travels southbound towards Brixton, & the reader is swept along with Lem in a review of the past which gradually accelerates into the present.