The Invention of Dr Cake

Author: MOTION, ANDREW

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 April 2004 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 160 pages
197 x 128 x 11 | 158g

What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a tantalising novel about poets and their afterlife.