Pillow Man by Nick Coleman

Pillow Man by Nick Coleman

William has a good, steady job in retail. He works in the bedlinen department of an Oxford Street store. He knows everything there is to know about comfy.

Lucy has a portfolio career which, in her view, is no kind of career at all. Her life is a mess, her love life even more unsatisfactory than that. She wouldn’t be comfortable if she sat on a sofa in Heal’s. Unable to sleep, she thinks a new pillow might be the answer.

William and Lucy are not connected. Yet the pair of them share a terrible memory from the past, the sort of joint recollection that changes with the light, depending on who you were and where you were standing at the time.

The question is: what to do with it?

Pillow Man is a London novel of our uneasy times. It has love in it and darkness. It sets lonely tunes to a broken backbeat. It marries life to death. Crucially, it explores the difficult metaphysics of bedtime.

What, after all, do we really mean by ‘thread-count’?

Full of melancholy wit, it’s sure to beguile fans of Nick Hornby-- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
A quirky, well-written romance cum mystery tale. -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *
Coleman imbues his writing with a dry wit that enlivens the everyday, and with pithy character descriptions. * Independent on Sunday *
Sharp, witty and beautifully written, it only takes moments to fall head first into the beautiful style of Pillow Man. * We Love This Book *
A raw account of the male emotional landscape. -- Liza Hoggard * Independent *

Following a brief spell as a stringer at NME in the mid-1980s, Nick Coleman was Music Editor of Time Out for seven years, then Arts and Features Editor at the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has also written on music for The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, New Statesman, Intelligent Life, GQ and The Wire. He is the author of The Train in the Night, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Book Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780224099813
ISBN 10	0224099817
Title	Pillow Man
Author	Nick Coleman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2015-08-06
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.