A moving novel of a life transformed by passion, by the Booker Prize-winning author of G . John Berger, storyteller, critic and political writer, brings us this tender and bittersweet novel of a man’s dreams of freedom and romance. In his sixty-third year, quite unexpectedly, William Corker, the genteel proprietor of a London employment agency, moves out of the house he has shared with his overbearing sister for most of his life. In this poignant tale of a late-life awakening, Berger creates a character of astonishing depth and liveliness – a man whose fantasies and ambitions are at once splendid and tragic. Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing , the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours , Here Is Where We Meet , the Booker Prize-winning novel G , Hold Everything Dear , the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X , and A Seventh Man .