'Towards the End of the Morning' by Michael Frayn
20 October 2022
Michael Frayn's 1967 novel 'Towards the End of the Morning' depicts a bygone era of Fleet Street newspaper offices - young men in suits spending their days staring out of the window, the slow manual compilation of nature notes and crossword clues, a mysterious unseen Editor, long liquid lunches and the dream of escaping the dead-end of print journalism through appearances on radio, or even television. It's a gentle, poignant satire punctuated by some brilliant set-piece farce scenes. The whimsical tone reminded me of Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat', daydreaming through slow, endless days and never taking itself too seriously. 'Towards the End of the Morning' is a slight novel but Michael Frayn manages to draw sympathetic, likeable characters who may be flawed, and ultimately doomed, but feel like friends.
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