This archetype is what Algy has become, the ragged character in the circus who gets the pie in his face, but surprisingly unperturbed by this, Algy attempts a pilgrimage to his office, then the doctor, determined to find a way out of the bad dream. The Oxford Dictionary defines an Auguste as a clown. In fact, not only his appearance, but his surroundings and the people he knows have all changed. One morning in 1932 Algy, a 22-year-old junior clerk at Gurney and Barman's wool mill, awakes to find himself transformed into a frail old clown.
For Algy Tuckett his hair is the least of his problems. What happens when you wake up one morning to find everything around you has changed? This is the predicament that faces the anti-hero of Keith Blackburn's latest novel, 'The Auguste'.
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