The Terrible Intimacy of Maxwell Sim

Maxwell Sim is at rock bottom. Abandoned by his wife and daughter, he can't have a real conversation with his father, he has only one friend, and his job is hanging by a thread. However, there's light at the end of the tunnel: Maxwell receives an offer to travel to the far north of the United Kingdom to represent an eco-friendly toothbrush company. But is he ready to face the loneliness of the road and encounter the ghosts of his past on the way to the Shetland Islands? At once entertaining and profound, Jonathan Coe's new book is a gripping satire on modern man, immersed in social media but increasingly lonely.