The Longest Journey

“The cow is there,” Ansell insists, proving his point with a match held over the carpet. Across the room, Rickie Elliot watches the smoke drift into the October night—and wonders whether the cow, or the world around her, exists at all.

At Cambridge, philosophical arguments share a room with tea, tobacco smoke and the clatter of supper dishes. Rickie, once cold and friendless, has found warmth among his fellow students, but he still hangs back, afraid of making a fool of himself. Then Agnes Pembroke appears at his door, furious: Rickie has forgotten her visit, and her brother is missing. His apology gives way to an awkward defense of his clever friend, whose family is not “gentlemanly.” In this lively, sharply observant novel, one forgotten engagement unsettles more than a pleasant evening. What will Rickie discover about the people he likes—and the person he is becoming?

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