A collection of short sketches which first appeared in "The Guardian" and "The Observer". The author has written novels such as "A Very Private Life", "Towards the End of Morning" and "The Trick of It", and a number of plays including "Make and Break", "Noises Off" and "The Two of Us".
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife.
