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The Brainstorm
Jenny Turner
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Description for The Brainstorm
Paperback. When Lorna comes to work one morning at the offices of a buzzing newspaper and a colleague offers to bring her a sandwich, all seems as it should be. Emails, boyfriends and sparkling parties follow. But Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember what she does, where she came from and where she's supposed to go next.. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Supposing one day at the office, you simply forgot why you were there. Would anybody notice? Would anybody care?
When Lorna comes to work one morning at the offices of a buzzing newspaper and a colleague offers to bring her a sandwich, all seems as it should be. Emails, boyfriends and sparkling parties follow. But Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember what she does, where she came from and where she's supposed to go next...
An acid yet poetic comedy set in the booming London of the 1990s, The Brainstorm is a startlingly funny and incisive novel about office life, friendships, ambition and love that will leave you wondering about the inner lives of your own colleagues.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099498124
SKU
V9780099498124
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-61
About Jenny Turner
Jenny Turner was born in Aberdeen and educated at the University of Edinburgh. Her journalism appears in the London Review of Books. She lives in south-east London with her family. The Brainstorm is her first novel.
Reviews for The Brainstorm
A fascinating comic creation
Independent
It is a funny and inventive book and Turner manages to fence dazzlingly with stereotypes and sharp home truths while making her mordant observations part of a far bigger picture
Stuart Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive
Viv Groskop
Sunday Express
This is a very clever, subtle novel, that in its quiet way polishes the surface of things so that we see them, for a while, as if for the first time
Nicholas Lezard
Evening Standard
A highly amusing and pretty convincing satire of the newspaper industry
Times Literary Supplement
Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole
Roz Kaveney
Time Out
Turner, a writer and journalist herself, faithfully portrays the dynamics of a media environment, often to comic effect
New Statesman
This wry, teasing novel should appeal to hacks and Hegel fans everywhere
Guardian
All of [the characters] are exquisitely drawn, satirically yet with compassion... Her style is so considered and condensed it is sometimes as beautiful as blank verse... Jenny Turner is a gifted novelist and this novel, slender but never slight, leaves you wanting more
Hermione Eyre
Independent
[A] smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive
Hepzibah Anderson
Observer
Independent
It is a funny and inventive book and Turner manages to fence dazzlingly with stereotypes and sharp home truths while making her mordant observations part of a far bigger picture
Stuart Kelly
Scotland on Sunday
This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive
Viv Groskop
Sunday Express
This is a very clever, subtle novel, that in its quiet way polishes the surface of things so that we see them, for a while, as if for the first time
Nicholas Lezard
Evening Standard
A highly amusing and pretty convincing satire of the newspaper industry
Times Literary Supplement
Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole
Roz Kaveney
Time Out
Turner, a writer and journalist herself, faithfully portrays the dynamics of a media environment, often to comic effect
New Statesman
This wry, teasing novel should appeal to hacks and Hegel fans everywhere
Guardian
All of [the characters] are exquisitely drawn, satirically yet with compassion... Her style is so considered and condensed it is sometimes as beautiful as blank verse... Jenny Turner is a gifted novelist and this novel, slender but never slight, leaves you wanting more
Hermione Eyre
Independent
[A] smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive
Hepzibah Anderson
Observer