EVERYMAN'S RULES FOR SCIENTIFIC LIVING
Shortlisted for The Orange Prize 2006. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel vividly captures the hope and the disappointment of the era when it was possible to believe in the perfectibility of both nature and humankind..It is 1934, the Graet War is long over and the next is yet to come.. It is the brief time of optimism and advancement.