Choices - Fiction
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. Things like his daughter Katie’s determination to marry Ray, despite family fears that her second marriage will go the way of her first; or his wife’s late-life affair with one of George’s ex-colleagues; or the fall-out when son Jamie refuses to invite his partner, Tony, to the wedding.
In the midst of this, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to go mad.
The Times called it “painful, funny, humane – beautifully written, addictively readable.”
The much-praised author of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time also has a very funny website – www.markhaddon.com
10 copies.
