Mr Phillips

<strong>Mr Phillips</strong> wakes on a summers Monday morning in his modest nearly mortgagefree house ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this d... » 

Mr Phillips wakes on a summers Monday morning in his modest nearly mortgagefree house ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is farfrom ordinary for on the previous Friday Mr Phillips was summarily sacked.Unable to deal with this disaster unable even to tell his own wife MrPhillips rises at his usual hour and prepares himself for the job he no longerhas. He wanders the streets of London and what he sees triggers memories.Gradually a picture develops of a decent man who only days before knewexactly who and what he was husband homeowner father valued employee and on this day wonders who and what he can become.Using the bits andpieces of one mans past John Lanchester has drawn a fully dimensional lifeand in the process made in Mr Phillips an Everyman for our times. «