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Plot Summary of Start from Here
"Mark Foll is working in a call centre. One day his boss tells him he could do better and sends him to Waverly Insurance. Once he is working there, he asks for "more interesting work" and his boss teams him up with Giles.
Together they visit people as claims adjusters.

Then they get send to a village, Marston Green, where there may or may not be a cluster of cancer , which may or may not be due to the waste management company that is a client of Waverly. They are send over there to see what's going on. They meet people from an action group and from the waste management company. To make things even more complicated, Mark falls in love with a woman from the action group


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Esther Punselie, Resident Scholar

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Plot
Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - present (2000-2010)
Political/social activism Yes
Plotlet: - environmental NUTJOB
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - British
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 (some)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Small town? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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