A clue to the exit

Edward St Aubyn

Original title: A Clue to the Exit

first published 2000 Piper, 2013 203 pages

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel--about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (famil...

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Clue to the Exit edition · 2015 · Pan Macmillan · 208 pages · 9781447253556
A clue to the exit edition · 2015 · Picador · 185 pages · 9781250046031
Ausweg edition · 2013 · Piper · 203 pages · 9783492301046
A clue to the exit edition · 2000 · Chatto & Windus · 196 pages

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