Promptness and Other Errors

Promptness and Other Errors is a quietly surreal novel about systems that function perfectly while meaning slips sideways. Set in a recognisable contemporary city that is always slightly out of alignment with itself, the book follows no central plot and no conventional protagonist. Instead, it traces a sequence of incidents-domestic, bureaucratic, atmospheric, and metaphysical-in which everyday objects, institutions, and moments begin to behave with an unnerving but polite autonomy.