A marketing executive wakes up in London expecting another routine day at the office. Instead, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. His carefully ordered professional life begins to unravel as one disaster follows another through the streets of the capital. Each mishap builds on the last, transforming what should have been ordinary Tuesday into something far more destructive. The protagonist finds himself caught between his mundane corporate existence and forces beyond his control. As the hours pass, his mounting problems force him to confront the emptiness that lies beneath his comfortable but meaningless routine. What starts as mere inconvenience becomes a reckoning with the life he has built for himself. The novel captures the anxiety and disconnection of urban professional life in Thatcher's Britain, where success feels hollow and security proves illusory.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, mundane-to-extraordinary
Setting: London
Period: Thatcher's Britain
240 pages · Hardcover · Sceptre