A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author¿Hilariously surreal. It''s a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic''Daily Mirror¿Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ... Such a fresh fictional voice''EsquireIt is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District''s damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East.But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous ¿out-of-season''...