Going Under
  • Published: 15 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099455349
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

Going Under

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Can one desperate man with nothing but a crazy idea take on a multi-national?

The future looks bleak for Aidan Walsh. He stands to lose his job if the last major employer in a dead-end Welsh town closes its factory and relocates to India. Then Aidan hatches a startling plan. He buries himself alive in a coffin in his back garden, announcing that he's not coming back up until everyone's job is saved.

Slowly but surely, as news of his remarkable protest spreads, people throughout the country begin to warm to his cause.

So begins a titanic battle of wills between a powerful corporation and an unlikely hero.
  • Published: 15 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099455349
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Ray French

Ray French was born in Newport, south Wales, to Irish parents. Since leaving university he has worked with people with disabilities, as a stagehand, labourer, cartoonist, archivist and in libraries. He now lives in Leeds, the Milan of the north, with his partner and their daughter.

Praise for Going Under

A warm, big-hearted tale with a hero you can't help but cheer for

Matt Haig

An unpretentious, accessible comedy... a fine example of the things that happen when one dares to think outside the box

Guardian

A triumphant tale of life, loss, hope and family

Big Issue

An excellent, incisive modern satire that manages to be simultaneously touching, funny and thought-provoking

Glasgow Herald

One of the very few writers who can remember precisely what childhood was really like, how crazy and intense it really was. Utterly unpretentious, totally engaging and very funny

Mark Haddon
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