Observatory Mansions
12 December 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Observatory Mansions was once the Orme family's ancestral home. Now it is a crumbing apartment block, stranded on a traffic island and peopled with eccentrics. Alice Orme never stirs from her bed, her husband lives in his old armchair, and Francis, their son, practises his own art of stillness as a human statue in the centre of the decaying city....
Details
12 December 2011
250 pages
9781447217459
Imprint: Picador