Armadillo

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 310. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Boyd's seventh novel. A darkly comic tale of a young insurance loss adjuster, who on a routine business appointment discovers a hanged man and finds his life turning awry. Adapted into a 2001 three-part BBC/A&E television series from a screenplay by the author, directed by Howard Davies and produced by Sue Birtwistle.

Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine. "What the book adds up to is an outstanding comic novel, very much in the tradition of Kingsley Amis's early writing and Anthony Burgess's Inside Mr Enderby." –Andrew Biswell, Literary Review