Two centuries after that, a couple of decades from now, the indirect consequences of these two apparently unrelated matters can be felt. A petty criminal is arrested and jailed for a series of cruel thefts from vulnerable women. The earliest event is the accidental death of a glaciologist in the mid 19th century.
From my own point of view it is just no longer my most recent work, as another new book will follow next year.Įxpect Me Tomorrow covers a period of roughly two hundred years. The book itself is of course undamaged by delay: it was challenging and involving to write, and I was happy with it when I sent it in. It seems ages since I completed the book, but there have been several apparently unavoidable delays.
I’m pleased at last to be able to publish the planned cover for my next novel in the UK, Expect Me Tomorrow. It is available direct from the publisher. Also included is the introduction Fowles himself wrote for the Revised Edition of 1977, a bonus essay about the book which Fowles wrote in 1994, and a transcript of a long filmed interview with Melvyn Bragg broadcast on the BBC’s The Lively Arts. As well as my own intro there is an afterword by Fowles’s biographer Eileen Warburton, and six new illustrations by Marc Burckhardt. Suntup’s handsome new edition is a luxury reprint, with several extras. It is in my view a masterpiece, one of the best and most original novels of the twentieth century. Although the book is now more than half a century old it still has the capacity to exert a powerful narrative grip on the reader, with a story that is both surprising and beautifully written. It gave no hint of the unique reading experience of the original work. The film, directed by Guy Green and starring Michael Caine in an early performance, was famously awful. It was a bestseller for many months, and filmed in 1968. This astonishing novel, first published in 1965, has not been available in hardcover for several years.įor me, discovering The Magus was a key and influential experience. The book has just been announced by Suntup Editions in California. Last year I wrote an introduction to a new American edition of John Fowles’s novel The Magus.
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