Michael Frayn’s evocative wartime psychological drama, which revisits the confused innocence of childhood through the memories of old age
Skios
Written by Michael Frayn
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2012
- Published by Faber & Faber
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A (suit)case of mistaken identity leads to a series of absurd misadventures, as Michael Frayn exports a madcap farce to an unsuspecting Greek island
On the island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming and the Foundation’s guests are soon eating out of his hand. Meanwhile, in a remote village at the other end of the island, a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and, increasingly, all sense of reality.
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn was born in London and began his writing career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer
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