Thinks ...

Summary

David Lodge has written ten previous novels, two of which where short-listed for the Booker Prize. Thinks ... went straight to the top ten best selling lists to high acclaim, and is an intelligently written, witty satire with multiple points of narrative interest. Ralph Messenger is approaching 50 and feeling rather pleased with himself. As director of Cognitive Science at the University of Gloucester, he is in demand on the study of human consciousness. Despite his implicit agreement with his wife not to stray, he is tempted by novelist Helen Read. His outlook on life, and bold advances seem to fascinate her. She resists until a series of events radically confirm the truth of Ralph's dictum, "We can never know for certain what another person is thinking ..."