The Plotting

by John Lucas

On a bleak mid-week evening early in the new year, a semi-professional jazz musician is nearing the end of a pub session when he suddenly recognises, sitting at the back of a room, a woman who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. Why is she here? What does she want? Uncovering answers to these questions is at the heart of John Lucas’s new novel. Set in a small midlands town, The Plotting is about the often hidden motives by which seemingly ordinary people choose to steer their lives. Lighter in tone than Waterdrops, Lucas’s previous novel, The Plotting is as ingeniously constructed and as much concerned with the discovery of difficult truths.

266 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2016