Mainlander

Smith, Will

ISBN 10: 0007594267 / ISBN 13: 9780007594269

Published by Fourth Estate, 2015

About this Item

First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2015 Fourth Estate. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Not price clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mainlander
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007594267
• ISBN 13: 9780007594269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will Smith – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets.

Jersey 1987, and the storm clouds are gathering over Colin Bygate, a Mainlander married to an Islander. When he first arrived, he fell for the Island’s heathered headlands and golden coves, its winding lanes and sweeping tides, its background hum of Frenchness. But now he strikes a dissonant note.

Sitting on an outcrop stewing after a row with his wife, schoolteacher Colin spots one of his pupils near the edge of a cliff. Worried that the boy may have intended to jump, he drives him home, hoping that his gloomy imagination was playing tricks. But when the boy fails to turn up to school the next day,Colin feels duty-bound to track him down, pitting him against the Island establishment who would rather there was a little less noise around this particular absence.

A web of characters is spun around this mystery, each with his or her own secrets. In Jersey, where everyone knows everyone else’s business, you must become your own island.

About the Author

Will Smith is a writer on the multi-award winning television shows Veep and The Thick Of It, in which he also appeared as hapless Tory researcher Phil Smith. He spent his formative years in Jersey, and now lives in London.