Fool is about a fool, or a fluffmeister. He is Barnaby Griswold and he has spent his life fluffing through deals, and doing alright in that it seems. Except this book sees him on worse times as he has got in trouble for his deals (short selling), is divorced, has no money, and is suspended from trading so is basically not doing anything (he has never had a proper job in 46 years of life).
So that is the plot pretty much although as Nancy Pearl (an American librarian who reads a lot) explains in her intro this novel is not about the plot as such, rather the way the book is written. Barnaby seems to be very reflective on life as he fluffs along. He reflects on tigers, his life, what would his dead father approve of etc. and his thoughts meander all over the place
Apart from that it is an American novel with an American librarian providing an introduction as well as a reader's guide at the end too for any book club people out there. But it wasn't quite an American version of Boris Johnson at all.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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