Book description
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's latest heart-breaking and hilarious novel
Maxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you.
He's about to have a mid-life crisis (though eh doesn't know it yet). He'll be found in his car in the north of Scotland, half-naked…
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A road-trip novel about a man promoting toothbrushes. Everything goes wrong on his journey to the northernmost point in the British Isles. Along the way we get an account of an adventurer who may have faked his epic travels and even his death. The ending for this novel is completely unexpected!
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