A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon, Simon Vance • BookLikes (ISBN:B000ICM20G)

A Spot of Bother

by: Mark Haddon (author) Simon Vance (narrator)

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Listening Length: 11 hours and 42 minutes

At 61, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting remarried, to the deeply inappropriate Ray. Her family is not pleased and Katie can't decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son, Jacob. Her mother, Jean, is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life George and Jean's son, Jamie, has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.

A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved best seller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Here the madness, literally, of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon's crackling prose and bittersweet insights into misdirected love.

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Format: audiobook

ASIN: B000ICM20G

Publish date: 2006-08-25

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Edition language: English

Category:

Humor, Family, Contemporary

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Mike Finn rated it

6 years ago

http://mikefinn.booklikes.com Mike Finn 3.5 "A Spot Of Bother" by Mark Haddon

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"A Spot Of Bother" is a humane, humorous look a man slowly unravelling in retirement and the reaction of his family to his slide into mental illness. It gets us inside the heads of an older couple and their adult children, showing, with a mix of wit, acute social observation and admirable empathy, h...

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XOX rated it

10 years ago

http://XOX.booklikes.com XOX 5.0 A strange family story

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I read this a few years ago, and really couldn't remember the details. But if I gave it 5 stars, it is pretty good. I do remember a lot of guessing between characters. A mixed of misunderstanding and miscommunication make it an anxiety story over nothing. Not much really happened in the story b...

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Awogfli - Bookcroc rated it

11 years ago

http://awogfli.booklikes.com Awogfli - Bookcroc 3.5 Mark Haddons Nabelschau der Middleclass

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Ich bin ja ein Fan von Mark Haddons Supergute Tage aber mit diesem Roman wurde ich einfach nicht ganz so warm, wie er es verdient hätte. Dabei kann ichs gar nicht so punktgenau fixieren, was mich gestört hat, denn der Autor kann wunderbar formulieren und auch Geschichten erzählen. Dieser unaufgeregt...

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bookaneer rated it

11 years ago

http://pagefault.booklikes.com bookaneer 3.0 "The whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older."

text "The whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older."

~~Moved from GR: down to 10/290!~~ A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon I picked up A Spot of Bother because of the delicious understatement of a title; it reminded me a bit of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, and I'm an Anglophilic sucker for that form of humour. To me, it feels like a very ...

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