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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Everybody wanted the railway close, oh yes please, но не close that they could hear it or smell it' Это только в dictatorships that trains run on time. Everywhere else, signal failures, lists on the line, wrong typ snow and the wrong typ of sunlight make departure and arrival times just a nice, idealistic theory. Если это становится матерью земного життя й мусить отримати хід деякий час, часи не можуть здатися хорошими – особенно, если некоторые становятся достаточно новыми условиями. Только что это upsets people more than railway delays, after all, es building more railway. Закрыть свои back gardens. And some of this people will go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks... 'British fiction's most brilliant satire on contemporary life' Telegraph 'The most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies…at once hilariously cynical and idealistically practical' Independent