What We Did On Our Holiday - Softcover

Harding, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552998478 ISBN 13: 9780552998475

Verlag: Black Swan, 2000

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Laugh-out-loud funny, lump-in-the-throat sad, taboo-breaking novel about family life and the horrors and hilarity of caring for elderly relatives.

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John Harding was born in a small Fenland village in the Isle of Ely in 1951. After local village and grammar schools, he read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he once sat next to Martin Amis during a lecture. He worked first as a newspaper reporter, then as a writer and editor in magazines, before becoming a freelance writer. His first novel was the acclaimed and bestselling WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY. He lives in Richmond upon Thames with his wife and two sons.

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How old do you have to be before you stop going on holiday with your parents? Nick's 36 and married and he hasn't cracked it yet...

Nick could have a great time on Malta if it weren't for one thing. His family. His wife Laura, biological alarm clock ringing, is desperate for children which means a nightly test of Nick's ingenuity to resist her amorous advances. There's Dad, afflicted with Parkinson's disease, scarcely able to walk or talk, unsure which country or decade he's in and obsessed by sex and lavatories. And there's Mum, weighing in at a formidable 18 stone (although she's convinced she's size 10) with a personality to match. Then there's the ghost from Dad's wartime past, come back to haunt them all...

Tackling a taboo subject with sensitivity, compassion and a total lack of sentimentality, What We Did on Our Holiday is about the time in our lives when we find ourselves looking after the very people we'd always assumed would be there to look after us. And it is also almost certainly the first novel in English literature to begin with the word 'toilet'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Swan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0552998478
• ISBN 13: 9780552998475
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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