A dark, surreally funny novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-shortlisted author‘Hilariously surreal.It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play...Fantastic' Daily Mirror‘Understatedly surreal, deadpan gothic, Mills is a master of the uncanny ...Such a fresh fictional voice' EsquireIt is the end of the summer.The tourists have already gone, and now the sun is abandoning the Lake District's damp valleys.Only a lone camper remains, enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence and he innocently obliges.Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous ‘out-of-season'...