The Nick of Time

✍ Scribed by King, Francis

• Book ID: 109103220
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781447258155

✦ Synopsis

'A book dealing with modern problems and rightly longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. King is a writer's writer, his voice utterly convincing' Beryl Bainbridge, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph
Francis King's provocative and adventurous novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Kosovan – an illegal immigrant – finds himself in London. Mehmet leads a double life befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS, while at the same time having an affair with a female doctor and throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Disaster looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector – and is arrested because of his illegal status.
'Very much of here and now . . . entirely persuasive' Penelope Lively, The Spectator
'I loved The Nick of Time, very enjoyable and subversive, with a highly engaging hero whose bad behaviour made compulsive reading – his exploits were most entertaining' Margaret Drabble
'King's...