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E is for Engleby
minorvogonpoet Started conversation Nov 5, 2017
There are books that I know I've read but have forgotten, and books 
that linger in my mind for long after. One of these is Sebastian Faulk's 'Engleby'.
The book is written from the point of view of Mike Engleby, a boy from a difficult background who gets a place in a prestigious university. (The place resembles Cambridge but that city isn't named.) He meets and becomes infatuated with a fellow student, Jennifer. When Jennifer goes missing, we wonder how much Engleby knows.
The book is haunting, disturbing, in its depiction of the workings of the mind of a man who is clever enough to understand society but doesn't quite fit. There is, however, a vein of dark humour in it.
E is for Engleby
SashaQ - happysad Posted Nov 5, 2017
Sounds very different from Jeeves and the Wedding Bells!
I can see how the 'vein of dark humour' translated across, though 
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