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<p><i><b>'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'</b></i><br><br>Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she's having the affair.<br><br>When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity arises for Beard to simultaneously save his marriage and the world from environmental disaster.<br><br>'Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining' <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br>'A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br>'A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet' <i><b>Financial Times</b></i><br><br><b>VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.</b></p> <p><i><b>'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'</b></i><br><br>Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she's having the affair.<br><br>When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity arises for Beard to simultaneously save his marriage and the world from environmental disaster.<br><br>'Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining' <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br>'A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic' <b><i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br>'A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet' <i><b>Financial Times</b></i><br><br><b>VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.</b></p>