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Title: The Way Inn
Author: Will Wiles
Narrator: Will Rycroft
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-14
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The Way Inn takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare.
The Way Inn is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend trade fairs, expos, and conventions so you don't have to. This life of anonymised, budget travel would be hell for most, but it's a kind of paradise for Neil, who has turned his incognito professional life into a toxic personal philosophy.
But Neil is about to change. In a brand-new Way Inn in an airport hinterland, he meets a woman - a woman he has seen before in bizarre and unsettling circumstances. She hints at being in possession of an astonishing truth about this mundane world. And then she disappears. Fascinated, and with his professional life unravelling, Neil tries to find the woman again. In doing so he is drawn into the appalling secret that lurks behind the fake smiles and muzak of the hotel.
Critic Reviews:
Praise for Care of Wooden Floors':
Funny and richly poetica surreal, farcical, original first novel (The Times Books of the Year)
A very funny novel combining schadenfreude and belly laughs. (Independent)
This is a terrific first novel, written with a very engaging deadpan wit, and an understated sense of the absurd. (Kate Saunders, The Times)
Ingenioushis story has something in common, in terms of manic sensitivity, with Edgar Allan Poes' The Tell-Tale Heart[with] deft and precise descriptive asides. This is a smart and polished debut. (Daily Telegraph)
This novel acquires the queasy allure of a cliff edge, the sense of impending catastrophe becoming strangely compellingaddictive and rather clever, too. (Daily Mail)
Funny, beguiling and quietly profound; a wonderfully well-crafted debut. (TLS)
A nicely turned satire on the notion that the path to spiritual contentment lies in a pristine set of polished wooden floorboards Wiles has an eye for beauty, but an even more impressive eye for ugliness a novel full of impeccably stylish writing (Guardian)
A novel about minimalism and chaos, which reveals more about the interaction of architecture and life than many an earnest treatise. If you want above all a good read, get this one. (Guardian Best Architecture Books of the Year)
Highly idiosyncratic, well-written, with a vivid sense of place is compelling. (Michael Frayn)
Care of Wooden Floors is a wonderful work. Precisely constructed, with an eye that sees in between the everyday spaces of our lives, it sheds new light, not only on ourselves, but on the contemporary novel itself. (Lee Rourke, author of The Canal)
The novel's strength lies in Wiles's wry depiction of the battle between chaos and order. (Sunday Times)
entertainingly conjure[s] up a life lived through aesthetics (Art Review)
Wiles is a talent to watch (The Spectator)
Compelling (Independent on Sunday)
Members Reviews:
Hell created with your comfort in mind
Modern day life is ripe for ridicule and this one deals with the world of business people and their dreaded business conferences. This is a very funny satire and many people (including myself) will recognise the dread of having to network with people you do not know and would never dream of mixing with in private life.
