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The Essence of the Thing

(1997)
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Awards
1997 Booker Prize (shortlist)

Nicola's problems begin when she is told by her partner, Jonathan, that they should part. She goes out to the off-licence and returns to find a stranger in her living room. The stranger looks and talks like Jonathan, but Jonathan had always been predictable. Where was the man she loved?


Genre: Literary Fiction

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