Saturday

SaturdayCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780099469681 Format: B format paperback Year: 2006 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Pages: 304 Description: 'Dazzling Profound and urgent' Observer 'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780099469681
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2006
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Pages: 304


Description:

'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer

'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times

Saturday, February 15, 2003.

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets.

A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...