The Tumultuous Year of Constance Harding: A Novel
by:
Ceri Radford (author)
"A comic gem" (Alexander McCall Smith) about a housewife who kisses her chintz and her cheating husband goodbye Constance Harding lives in a picture perfect house. She is, however, absolutely clueless about the real world, e.g., *why her twenty-five-year-old son still hasn’t found a nice...
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"A comic gem" (Alexander McCall Smith) about a housewife who kisses her chintz and her cheating husband goodbye Constance Harding lives in a picture perfect house. She is, however, absolutely clueless about the real world, e.g., *why her twenty-five-year-old son still hasn’t found a nice girl, *why her Lithuanian housekeeper’s thongs keep turning up in her husband’s study, and *why her teenage daughter is dressed in head-to-toe spandex . . . When disaster strikes, she flees her comfortable nest. Constance is about to discover a wider world she thought it was too late to find. And she’s putting it all in her blog-thingy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143122869 (014312286X)
Publish date: March 26th 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Okay, so it's hard to rate this book. It was delightful to read in spurts, but as a book that one reads long-term, it was kind of insufferable. It has the amusement and whimsy of a really naive narrator (Constance), who clings to the conservative British upper class and The TImes. God forbid her son...
This novel comes from a column created by the author in England. In it she takes on the guise of a 52-year-old, wealthy, stay-at-home British woman who is clueless to the life about her. The humor comes in her descriptions of what is occurring and her inability to see the obvious, such as her husban...
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