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You Can morning in London, Adam Kindred, a climatologist around for employment interview, is feeling good concerning the future as he sits down for meals in a small French cafe. He strikes up a conversation with a sole diner at the following table, who leaves quickly afterward. With scary pace, this chance encounter results in a number of malign mishaps, by which everything—home is lost by Adam, family, friends, work, status, passport, charge cards, mobile phone—never to have them back. Bill Boydis inspiring follow-as much as the Costa Prize-winning Sleepless, Regular Thunderstorms is just a serious and gripping book concerning the fragility of cultural identification, the problem in the centre of big-business, and the secrets that lie concealed within the seamy underbelly of each town.