![]() And in the intervening years I never saw it on a bookshelf again nor have I seen it come up in book discussions. Now, I’m sure I’ve just been myopic, but I’ve seen dozens of discussions devoted to Disgrace and almost as many devoted to another 1999 Booker finalist, The Blackwater Lightship. Who knows when or if I would have picked up and read this book had KevinfromCanada not recommended it to me when I asked him for books related to one of my favorites A Month in the Country (also, Booker shortlisted, and also almost forgotten). Thank goodness he recommended it to me. I was even more surprised when I saw that Headlong was a Booker finalist, losing out that year to Coetzee’s Disgrace. ![]() Just a few days after seeing his play Democracy, I was wandering around London’s National Gallery bookshop when I first saw Michael Frayn’s novel Headlong. I didn’t know he wrote novels because I knew Frayn only for Copenhagen, Noises Off, and now Democracy, all great plays. ![]() Headlong by Michael Frayn (1999) Picador (2000) 352 pp ![]()
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