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by Francis King (Author) "'It was as though God had sent him to me,' Meg said to her sister Sylvia, about her first encounter with Mehmet ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Arcadia Books; Reprint edition (1 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1900850788
  • ISBN-13: 978-1900850780
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 332,709 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'There are not many 78-year-olds capable of surprising their audience, but King is one of them' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'That rare phenomenon, a novel by a gnarled old literary presence that extends rather than consolidates his reputation. Very good' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov' - Beryl Bainbridge, BBC Today Programme


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'It was though God had sent it to me,' Meg said to her sister Sylvia, about her first encounter with Ahmad. 'More like the devil,' Sylvia had thought but not said. Francis King's entertaining new novel looks at the havoc wrought when a young Egyptian - an illegal immigrant - finds himself in London. Ahmad leads a double life, befriending and lodging with an elderly woman who suffers from MS; while at the same time throwing himself onto the London gay scene. Jealousy looms when he begins a relationship with a gay protector - and is arrested because of his illegal status.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent, articulate and entertaining, 26 April 2009
By John Mason "johnm2325" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I loved this book. I first came across Francis King's work a few years ago in an anthology of short stories ('Secret Lives', also highly recommended) and since then have read anything of his that I can find. I can never understand why so many of his books are out of print, I think he deserves to be much more widely known.
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