The dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with the
fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of The Way Inn, brought
together in a fast moving story set in contemporary London.
Jack Bick is an interview journalist at a glossy lifestyle
magazine. From his office window he can see a black column of smoke in
the sky, the result of an industrial accident on the edge of the city.
When Bick goes from being a high-functioning alcoholic to being a
non-functioning alcoholic, his life goes into freefall, the smoke a
harbinger of truth, an omen of personal apocalypse. An unpromising
interview with Oliver Pierce, a reclusive cult novelist, unexpectedly
yields a huge story, one that could save his job. But the novelist knows
something about Bick, and the two men are drawn into a bizarre, violent
partnership that is both an act of defiance against the changing city,
and a surrender to its spreading darkness.
With its
rich emotional palette, Plume explores the relationship between truth
and memory: personal truth, journalistic truth, novelistic truth. It is a
surreal and mysterious exploration of the precariousness of life in
modern London.
Plume - Will Wiles
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£8.99