Norwegian Wood society & culture Mark Vanhoenacker has written the

Mark Vanhoenacker has written the ideal book on the subject: a description of what it's like to fly by a commercial pilot who is also a master prose stylist and a deeply sensitive human being

Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours

the miraculous and the disastrous

As she grew older

'Not since Lucky Jim has such a funny book about academic life come my way' - "Sunday Times"

Norwegian Wood society & culture Mark Vanhoenacker has written theWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo adrift in a world of uneasy friendships casual sex passion loss and desire to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past Evocative entertaining sexy and funny but