# Overtaken

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- Book: [Overtaken](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexei-sayle/overtaken) ([Overtaken.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexei-sayle/overtaken.md))
- Authors: [Alexei Sayle](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexei-sayle)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-03-4076-769-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2004-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Kelvin is a 33-year-old property developer living in a small Lancashire town. He has five close friends, all in well-paid jobs. Having bought their lovely houses cheaply in the early 1990s, they are free to spend money on their own pleasures - particularly clothes, meals and cars. Most of all, their life revolves around going to see things - art exhibitions, comedians, live music, plays... When we first meet the six friends they are on their way to see a new kind of circus. Once there Kelvin does something unforgivable to a clown, has a strange snack and meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. It's the beginning of the end of the good life.