|summary=A cleverly comic allegory of modern life itself … all is not as it seems when Franklyn wakes up from a coma with no memory but sharpened sensibilities.
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This is a slow bowl with a wicked curl! The hero, Franklyn wakes up in hospital; he discovers that he has had a car accident, but he can’t remember anything. Alice, Franklyn’s wife, and Oscar, his brother, are full of loving concern and his work colleagues are solicitous, but Franklyn soon senses a lack of authenticity in his family members and starts to sniff round to discover why.