A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh and then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in New Zealand, where he currently lives with his wife and children.
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Terms & Conditions
Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories – of the people around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when Oscar, his brother, takes the family company into business with an inventively cruel corporation** and Alice, his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank’s world starts to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by*** begin to change.
‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-affirming” written on it but this one actually is’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans
‘Original, very funny and very poignant. Read it!’ Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
‘Entertaining … Insights into the predatory aspects of human nature are spot on’ New York Times
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/terms-conditions-9781408852194/
*apparently quite a serious one
**we can’t tell you what it’s called for legal reasons, but believe us, it’s evil
***and which are rarely in his favour
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First published in Great Britain 2016
First U.S. edition 2016
© Robert Glancy, 2016
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-63286-430-7
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