Academically gifted but socially inept, Engleby comes by his reserve honestly, having suffered childhood abuse at home and then been the victim of the particularly vicious form of bullying perfected by English public school boys. Engleby develops survival skills with a heavy dependency on alcohol and drugs. At Cambridge, without a network of his own friends, he imagines himself in a relationship with popular Jennifer Arkland and insinuates himself into the fringes of her crowd. When she goes missing, Engleby suffers from memory lapses so that his past is as much a mystery to himself as it is to the reader. He eventually lands a successful career in journalism, moves in with a colleague, and experiences a brief period of contentment. But old demons resurface when Jennifer's body turns up and the past begins to encroach.
TextPublication details: New York : Doubleday , c2007.Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S.ADescription: 342 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 
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