by Robert Llewellyn · Coronet Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340707906
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«The Man on Platform Five» is Robert Llewellyn's humorous novel, published by Coronet Books in paperback (448 pages, in English).
In Milton Keynes, two stepsisters, Gresham and Eupheme, watch a train enthusiast on the platform. Gresham sees him as a lost cause; Eupheme bets she can turn him into an elegant man before her sister's engagement party. The chosen one, Ian Rignfold, is an enthusiast of timetables and curious anecdotes.
The novel was first published in 1998 in the UK (Hodder & Stoughton); this Coronet Books edition is from 1999 and on the cover the title appears as «The Man on Platform 5».
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking British comedy with agile dialogue and social observation.
Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the sci-fi television sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He has also founded and hosts a YouTube series, Everything Electric, which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe.
