This is Aliya Whiteley’s first novel, after 2004’s superb novella Mean Mode Median, and a rather different proposition from that earlier work. In the little Devon town of Allcombe, seven people begin their training course at a bank’s call centre. They play a game as an icebreaker: each person says three things about her- or himself, but only two are true; the other group members try to guess which is the lie. We then follow the trainees to the end of the course two months later, by which time their situations have changed somewhat…
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