Aristotle's Cuttlefish

Aristotle's Cuttlefish by Matthew Dooley


ISBN
9781787333956
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224

Enter the bowls clubs, caffs and corner shops of Dobbiston town, as the acclaimed author of Flake returns to tell the story of Mr Daniels and a chance connection that altered the course of his life.

You can tell a lot about someone from what they misplace.

Oddball Mr Daniels has spent his life sorting chaos into order.

In the basement of a shabby Town Council building, he has meticulously labelled, guarded and sometimes claimed the lost property of Dobbiston's residents for thirty years; a life's work carried out mostly unnoticed.

But when a bored teenager on work experience interrupts his routine, Mr Daniel's underground world is revealed to be both a lonely prison of his own making and a refuge for his peculiar, uncurbed creativity. A place where hit-and-miss experiments to make the elixir of life, or record the music of the spheres, help him to grieve and search for existential truths.

Told through Lost Property Office vignettes - a snooker cue love story, a granny's tea cosy and a kid's toy on an intergalactic adventure - local histories are elevated to the momentous and profound, drawn with playful nostalgia and Dooley's deadpan wit.

Aristotle's Cuttlefish is an irresistible and witty portrait of a close-knit northern town and the lives those lost and found characters within it.
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