November may be said to have four sets of protagonists a group of night shift workers in southeast France their friends relatives lovers and acquaintances the factory in which they work and the work itself. Christopher Woodall is a writer and translator. His translations include Piero Camporesis Exotic Brew and Lydie Salvayres The Company of Ghosts. November is his first novel. This novel takes place over the course of two and a half hours one evening in November 1976 at the plastic diecasting