Mike Engleby has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-
class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the
disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the
story turns into a mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks's new novel
is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has ever written before:
contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of
black.