num_pages: 384
description: Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, "Nice Work" is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings. When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle's engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. 'A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' - "Observer".
language: English
title: Nice Work
titlecomplete: Nice Work
characters: Robyn Penrose, Vic Wilcox
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Humor, Academia, Contemporary, British Literature, Comedy, Literary Fiction, College, Novels
ratings_count: 5530
series: The Campus Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year
publisher: Penguin