Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex & literature. He is obsessed by the life & work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century
- & by Barney as a `prurient little Victorian ratbag`. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, & out of the life he shares with Sharon & her `rampant marvellings`, to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers with his slip-on snakeskin shoes, fur coat & antagonism to all things green & growing as he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs on long, morbid walks, tampering with the truth, tangling with the imperious Camilla
- & telling a riotous tale. By the winner of the Man Booker Prize & author of The Finkler Question.