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The Roundabout by Michael Allwright. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Roundabout about?

This is a riveting little book that manages to squeeze three different narrators and at least four different perspectives into 138 pages. There aren’t a lot of books on the theme of “Suppose I’ve got it all wrong,” but boy, do they tend to be good ones: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier; Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. And you can add this one to the list.Cover of U.K. paperback edition of The Roundabout.Mathew, a naive and odd young man, takes a room at Mrs. Haines’ house. Within his first day there, he notices, through the curtains in the window of the house next door, just fifteen feet away, that someone is watching him. He learns that this is Mrs. Shawburn, a heavy-set middle-aged woman whose husband is blind and almost deaf. He speaks to her over the backyard hedge, has tea with her and Mr. Shawburn, who’s obsessed with horse-racing, and believes she tries to kiss him impulsively as she shows him out the door. He becomes convinced that Mrs. Shawburn has designs on him and then, when he notices that the couple isn’t taking their usual walk on Wednesday evenings, that she’s murdered her husband.Some of this is true. Or partly true. Some of it is utterly, totally mistaken

Who reads The Roundabout?

Author

Michael Allwright.

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

1968

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (153 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13