Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-month-old fetus witnesses their mother Trudy's betrayal of their father John, as she and her lover Claude plot murder in a valuable London townhouse. Nutshell is the 14th novel by the English author. It alludes to William Shakespeare's Hamlet and re-imagines the plot from the perspective of an unborn fetus in London in 2015. Clean copy.