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Robert Wilson is an aimless, chronically untruthful young Englishman who has passed himself off as a Muslim, in order to secure a job at the newly established Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys’ Day School. East of Wimbledon is the hilarious story of Mr Wilson’s decline and fall, as he demonstrates the failure of a post-colonial Briton to understand another great imperial culture that has absolutely no need of him.
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Williams has taken the suburban comic novel to heights of which it can never have dreamed.
A cleverly plotted, wildly funny plea for common sense [that] makes you laugh out aloud on nearly every page.
Screamingly funny