Small World

Small World

by Matt Beaumont (Author)

Synopsis

Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet, and some you nearly meet, will have an impact on the way your day goes. Small World is the story of a group of men and women, living and working in a city, who are connected through love, work, friendship, or simply by virtue of proximity. We connect with the hearts and minds of characters including an all-coping housewife, a stressed out working mother, a put-upon nanny, a long-suffering journalist, an Indian waiter who dreams of stardom, a grieving shop assistant, a stand-up comic and a psychotic policeman - all of whom speak directly to us about their innermost thoughts, fears and desires in a series of interwoven first-person narratives.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 14 Jan 2008

ISBN 10: 0593060148
ISBN 13: 9780593060148
Book Overview: Can we ever be truly in control of our own destinies, or are our lives entirely shaped by random events and unknown people? Small World is an entirely contemporary and engrossing page-turner which explores universal themes of love, death, friendship, marriage, madness, and redemption, unifying them all through this central question.

Media Reviews
This has an ingeniously constructed plot and enough real emotional heft to lift it above the Cold Feet herd. The Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Matt Beaumont lives in London with his wife, the writer Maria Beaumont, and their children.