The obsessive life of an office-burdened Londoner, living his narrow and routine daily existence, is focused by this diarist not – he supposes – on his wife but upon his dog. His sanity depends upon that relationship and its imaginary ramifications – a relationship which begins to crumble, as he himself records, with devastating acceleration.
The Swap
Published by Tom Stacey
"Tom Stacey’s adventurous life has given him extraordinary tales to tell. A born writer, he offers us reflective wisdom put down memorably and pleasurably in a unique voice. His work has been acclaimed by writers as varied as Nina Bawden, Sybille Bedford, Orville Prescott, Rowan Williams, Christopher Hill and John Gray who described The Man Who Knew Everything as ‘a near-forgotten masterpiece’ when naming it as his joint Book of the Year for the New Statesman – ‘one of the few books I’ve ever read that I finished in one sitting and then immediately had to read again’." View all posts by Tom Stacey
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