Description
'I tried to work out which was worse; feeling different but fitting in or being different but feeling in your heart like you should fit but not quite fitting. Which was worse? Stupid question.'
Small Holdings is a novel about stupid questions. It is also a novel about fitting and holding.
The location is an attractive park in Palmers Green, north London. The protagonists are Phil, a chronically shy gardener; Doug, his imposing and unpredictable supervisor; and a malevolent, one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem.
Phil strives nobly to maintain his equilibrium despite being systematically mystified, brutalized, drugged, derided and seduced. But when he loses his eyebrows, he decides to fight back.
ISBN:9780571175871
