description: Mr Bird has just completed the network of tunnels beneath the Duke's estate. Young Mr Bowden has finished the gateposts. But His Grace is far from happy. On his isolated estate the Duke is at the mercy of his household staff. No-one, not even he, understands his most persistent ache, a pain of absence, an elusive memory that struggles to surface. The Duke's slow piecing together of the truth about his past builds to a conclusion of powerful emotional intensity.
language: English
title: The Underground Man
titlecomplete: The Underground Man
genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Modern, Gothic, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1429
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Isis