ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVINGEvery Tuesday, Rufus Manning reports to the Job Centre with a diary full of jobs he never applied for, interviews he never attended, and an adviser who believes every word of it.Every other day belongs to someone else.Alone on the twenty-first floor of a crumbling tower block, Rufus has built a world to survive in: Earl Grey becomes an uninvited aristocratic guest. His mouldering chair becomes Charlie, a coward and deserter. Hi...