A Clue to the Exit

By Edward St. Aubyn

Book Overview

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling best

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.

His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier work) who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty, and thoughtful, Edward St. Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250046033
• ISBN13: 9781250046031
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Picador Paper
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"