Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks Im him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundations annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the worldfamous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundations guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser.Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikkis old schoolfriend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a welltravelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science... And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred or possibly both to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios Greece Europe career off their appointed track. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Skios is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences. Michael Frayn is also the...

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