A spot of bother

a novel

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Mark Haddon: A spot of bother (2007, Vintage Contemporaries)

Paperback, 354 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 2007 by Vintage Contemporaries.

ISBN:
978-0-307-27886-9
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OCLC Number:
163571823

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At the age of sixty-one, George Hall settles to a comfortable retirement. His tempestuous daughter, Katie, then announces that she is getting remarried to the deeply inappropriate Ray to her family's displeasure. Her mother, Jean, is disgusted with the huge preparation the wedding entails, which also disrupts her late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. The seemingly neat and pleasant life of George and Jean's son, Jamie, disintegrates when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.

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Review of 'A spot of bother' on 'Goodreads'

Whilst you could roughly see where the story was heading for most of the book it was engaging & well written. I enjoyed it.

Subjects

  • Older men
  • Mortality
  • Fiction