Extinctions

Josephine Wilson

Extinctions
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 July 2018
Pages
320
ISBN
9781788160766

Extinctions

Josephine Wilson

Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award

Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life, he is determined to be miserable, but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen.

When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime’s secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves.

Humorous, poignant and galvanising, this is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.

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