In Limbo (novel)

In Limbo (ISBN 0-586-06338-2) is a 1985 science fiction novel by Christopher Evans, set in contemporary Britain.

The novel explores the experience of protagonist Michael Carpenter who has been detained in a mysterious windowless institution called Limbo by its inmates.

Carpenter's fellow inmates are introduced: leftist intellectual Wright, corpulent joker Riley, fitness fanatic Treadwell and the nervous Sinnott.

Through these conflicts, the novel explores flashbacks to Carpenter's earlier life.

After leaving university, Carpenter has drifted from one dead-end job to another, and also moved between various unsatisfactory sexual relationships, with the strident feminist Veronica, the kleptomaniac Karen, married colleague Eleanor and the unstable Penny.