Reissued in new series style to match Faulks’s most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 ‘His most brilliant novel yet’ Daily Telegraph Mike Engleby has a secret… This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. When Jennifer, the fellow student he admires from a afar, disappears the reader has to ask- is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth? ‘Engleby himself is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised… engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny…’ Guardian