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Nigel Williams
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Pages: 320 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0571142427
Pub: Faber and Faber
Pub date: 1990-03-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 653852
Reader Reviews:
A Brilliant Read (1/1 people found this helpful)
The book is an absolute marvellous read. I thought the characters in the story to be very convincing. Henry Farr is a man with a few problems - his 'wife' and how he thinks up ways in which he can 'finish her off' are both very wicked and very very funny. I would highly recommend this to anyone, a must!
Forget the tennis: read this!! (1/1 people found this helpful)
Linguistic dexterity makes this book a real gem - alerting you forever to your family, friends and neighbours and their funny little foibles; Mr "is the Mitsibushi scratched yet" is alive and well and living in Northern Ireland (though in real life he drives a Toyota).
Williams has written a biting satire on middle England in the late 20th Century, which manages to make the reader laugh aloud. THe TV series in no way did the novel justice - this is clearly one of the most entertaining books of the decade.
Oh yes - and if you're not getting on so well with your spouse and/or child, or anyone else for that matter, it gives some great handy hints on how NOT to do away with them... Madame Bovary and Therese Desqueyroux have nothing on this!
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