Synopsis
A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author.
Many of Legoland's stories begin with the seemingly every day, only for a turn of events to land them in an unsettling place where life's normal rules no longer apply. Whether he's writing about a child’s birthday party or the invasion of an unnamed country...
Details
23 March 2017320 pages
9781447288695Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A comic sensibility closer to Alan Bennett or Tom Sharpe. Woodward's rueful amusement isn't frivolity, it's a world viewFinancial Times
Gerard Woodward falls squarely between the comic lunacy of American short-form virtuoso George Saunders and the everyday rhapsodies of Raymond CarverTime Out
Woodward is a skilful writer, with a fertile imaginationGuardian
At his best, Gerard Woodward is one of our finest writers . . . he writes with subtlety and skillDaily Telegraph
