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    Trading Futures
    Trading Futures
    Trading Futures
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    Trading Futures

    By Jim Powell

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    'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail

    When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and suspended it over the jar, just touching the water. In time, roots sprouted, and when they were long enough and strong enough, the plant was translated to the garden and new carrots grew. This was one of the many exciting ways in which I was prepared for adult life.

    This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth, however, is that he has some way to go yet . . .

    With forensic precision and mordant wit, Matthew unpicks the threads that bind him: a comfortable home in the suburbs, a career spent trading futures and a life that bears little resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at twenty. When he unexpectedly bumps into Anna (the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic unravelling.

    Darkly funny, Trading Futures forces us to confront how change, like death, is an inevitable fact of life: feared by most, it can transform or overwhelm us. This is a brilliantly observed novel, for fans of works such as John Lanchester's Mr Phillips and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.

    It also featured as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781509806447
    Trading Futures
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    Jim Powell

    Jim Powell was born in London in 1949. He is the author of The Breaking of Eggs, Trading Futures and Things We Nearly Knew, and was named by BBC2's 'The Culture Show' among '12 of The Best New Novelists' in 2011. He is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Liverpool and, with his wife Kay, divides his time between Cambridgeshire, England, and the Tarn, France.

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      I began this book with high hopes after hearing that it was being read by Toby Jones as BBC Radio 4's book of the week. It starts ok with the set up that the narrator has made some terrible speech on his 60th birthday to his family. He seems in trouble, and is soon sacked from his job selling futures in the city. This coincides with the crash of 2008. He swiftly becomes an unreliable narrator both to his wife and to the reader; implausibilities pile up and the tension goes out of the novel. After a quarter of it (and it is only very short) I skipped to the end and got the pay off. Was it worth it? No spoilers but look at my rating.

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