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Trading Futures

Paperback

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09 March 2017
224 pages
9781509806430
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.
[Trading Futures] has a Reginald Perrin charm about it and an unexpected twist in the tail, but it stays affably bleak to the end.
What starts as a light and droll Reggie Perrin-style novel about the fall of a middle-aged everyman, a "perfect makeweight in an identity parade", becomes surprisingly dark and intense. We see the crack-up through Matthew's eyes, which also allows for some wittily caustic observations about modern living.