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Eight Minutes Idle

Matt Thorne

When his father gets knocked over in a car accident Dan is forced to economise give up the bedsit the two of them share and secretly move into the call centre where he works. He takes with him a ginger tom cat called John and the telephone numbers of seven women his dad wants him to contact. Soon the boundaries between Dan's life and work dissolve completely and if it weren't for the secrecy twenty-four-hour residency at the call centre would mark him out as the perfect employee.>

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : DEC 1, 2012
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 352
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780220949
  • Price : INR 575
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Matt Thorne

Matt Thorne is the author of six novels, including Eight Minutes Idle, which won an Encore Award and which he adapted into a 2014 film, and Cherry, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also the author of three children's books and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent book was a critical study of the pop star Prince, acclaimed as 'the definitive work on the man.'

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