Kitchenly 434 av Alan Warner

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<p><b>''One of our finest writers'' Michael Moorcock</b><br><br><b>''Alan Warner is one of our best living writers'' Jenni Fagan</b><br><i><br>Kitchenly 434 </i>is set in a sprawling Tudorbethan mansion in Sussex, Kitchenly Mill Race, on the cusp of the arrival of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. In some ways, the last days of an Age of Innocence.<br><br>Marko Morrell, guitarist in Fear Taker, is one of the biggest rock stars in the world. His <i>demanding</i> lifestyle means he is frequently<i> in absentia </i>at Kitchenly, his idyllic country retreat, and so it is his butler (or ''help''), Crofton Clark, who is charged with the maintenance and housekeeping. When, one day, two young girls arrive looking for Marko clutching their copies of Fear Taker LPs, Crofton finds himself on a romantic misadventure which leads to the tragi-comic unravelling of the fantasies he has been living by.<br><br>A novel about delusional male behaviour, opening and closing curtains, self-awareness, lone