Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface
 Acknowledgements
 PART I: INTRODUCTION 
Timeline
 1. Introduction
 2. A Biographical Reading
 PART II: MAJOR WORKS 
3. 'Funny, Brutalist and Short': The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love and The Dwarves of Death
 4. State-of-the-nation Novels: What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle
 5. Gravity and Grace: The House of Sleep and The Rain before it Falls
 6. Everyman on the Road and Abroad: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58
 PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS
7. Author Interview
 8. Other Writings
 9. Critical Reception
 Bibliography
 Index.

About the Author

Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of Novelists in the New Millennium (2012), also published by Palgrave Macmillan.