Paul Robert Smith Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Fielding Montanna might be dead, but doesn't know it. Sunday Daffodil wants to kill herself, but won't die. Louie Louie has the hots for Fielding's once beautiful mother, and the mysterious Moriarty hasn't slept a wink in twenty three years. Manhattan, meanwhile, is slowly sinking in a sea of sludge. Obviously it was always going to have a happy ending...P. Robert's Smith's gloriously inventive follow-up to Up A Tree in the Park At Night with a Hedgehog is set in a New York that is both futuristic and yet drenched in nostalgia, and peopled with charming, quirky characters all in search of their own happy endings.

The author reminisces about the simple joys of his 1920s childhood, when he dealt with collecting horse-chestnuts, playing neighborhood sports, reading books, searching for arrowheads, and building a treehouse.

Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother...His life hasn't exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiancée, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a history of suicidal pets, Benton - ambitionless and emotionally disengaged - embarks, for no apparent reason, on an affair with a beautiful, sexually adventurous, Korean virgin.Following a strange snowballing of even stranger events, he finds himself, at last, exactly not where he ever imagined he would be, up a tree at night in the park with a hedgehog...

Wie soll man nicht an das Schicksal glauben, wenn die Verlobte vom Dach stürzt und erfriert und der Schwiegervater im Auto von einem Zug angefahren wird? Benton jedenfalls erlebt ständig die absurdesten Dinge ═ und findet sich selbst eines Nachts mit einem Igel unter einem Baum wieder ...