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Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. Parks is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still, Italian Ways and Italian Life. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has won many awards for both his work in English and his translations from the Italian, which include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso, Antonio Tabucchi and Niccol Machiavelli.
Tim Parks's brilliant new comedy is an invigorating twist on the male mid-life crisis novel... A very funny, very clever novel that shows with tremendous verve how life is so often a beleaguering collision between the absurd and the profound. * Daily Mail * Tim Parks is a hugely talented writer, who deserves to be a good deal more celebrated than he is... thematically taut and compulsively paced. * Sunday Times * Head and shoulders above so many of the books turned out by similar writers... Parks, by being funny, explodes all that. This is a wonderfully written novel that draws us close to Thomas in spite of who he is, not, as a lesser author would have had it, because of how he's been carefully curated to be. -- Kirsty Gunn * Guardian * Nobody tells this sort of story better than Tim Parks, who has a gift, unrivalled among his contemporaries, for capturing the sheer rapidity with which unconnected trains of thought hurtle round and round in the human brain. The novel is a tour de force of high-voltage storytelling * Mail on Sunday * The best novel I read this year was Tim Parks's In Extremis, a frantic and minutely observed comedy of family, marriage, life and death. There is something in the synaptic twitch of Parks's prose that brings us closer to the pressures and rhythms of a lived life than the work of any other contemporary writer I can think of -- Mike McCormack * New Statesman, Best Books of 2017 *
