ROBERT CHALMERS

Now available in paperback: 'East of Nowhere is a novel of wonderful surprises, an emotional see-saw that can be very funny, very sad and very brutal. This is a story about a love that shouldn't work at all, but triumphs against the odds.' (Michael Palin) This is the story of how a bad man called Edward Miller lost his job, his house, his wife, his hair and his front teeth, but in the process becomes good. It is the story of how, in his only ever truly sel.ess act, Edward risks all to save the woman he loves. In East of Nowhere, Robert Chalmers has created a dazzling ensemble cast of characters in a unique fiction for our times. It is as mordantly funny as it is breathtakingly true.

Confuso y perdido a veces, encantador y simpático, el protagonista recuerda al Hugh Grant de Cuatro bodas y un funeral.A punto de perder su trabajo y ya dejando atrás la vida de veinteañero despreocupado para pasar a la de serio treinteañero, Daniel se siente algo confuso y no tiene muy claro qué hacer con su vida. Está enamorado de una mujer, Laura, con cierta tendencia a la infidelidad y cuyas aficiones son saltar en paracaídas o fotografiar perros. Y ahora tiene entre manos un extraño trabajo: elaborar las necrológicas de personalidades que por distintos motivos están en el infierno.