The Nick of Time - Softcover

King, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900850788 ISBN 13: 9781900850780

Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003. This provocative and adventurous novel explores the havoc wrought when a young Kosovan-an illegal immigrant-finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life of befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis, while at the same time having an affair with a woman doctor and throwing himself into the London gay scene. Disaster looms when Mehmet begins a new relationship and is quickly arrested because of his illegal status.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviewed fiction regularly for the Spectator. He won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His penultimate book, The Nick of Time, was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Francis King died in 2011.

Review:

'There are not many 78-year-olds capable of surprising their audience, but King is one of them' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'That rare phenomenon, a novel by a gnarled old literary presence that extends rather than consolidates his reputation. Very good' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov' - Beryl Bainbridge, BBC Today Programme

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1900850788
• ISBN 13: 9781900850780
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316