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The paperchase

Marcel Theroux

2001219 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001Abacus · 219 pages · ENGISBN 9780349114668
  • 2002Howes · 283 pages · ENGISBN 9781841975092
  • 2014Faber and Faber · 279 pages · ENGISBN 9780571296866

Damien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod.

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