Happy Accidents
On Sale: 08/01/2005
Happy Accidents
On Sale: 08/01/2005
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About the Book
Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic.
Gran has been homesick for Coney Island for thirty-eight years, hating her husband but determinedly donning her best pink Chanel suit and high heels to step out into the muck-splattered farmyard. Grandpa is bonkers, an ex-naval Captain who wanders round the house shouting sea-faring commands. Mum's gone AWOL since she ran over Kate's dad in her soft-top Triumph Spitfire. And are those really Dad's ashes in a Hellmann's mayonnaise jar in the attic?
Crackling with the darkest of dark humour, brimming with crazy ancestors and closely guarded secrets, HAPPY ACCIDENTS is a wonderful first novel that confirms Tiffany Murray as a rising star of British fiction.
Critical Praise
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780007183678
- ISBN 10: 0007183674
- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 08/01/2005
- Pages: 352
- List Price:19.95 CAD
- BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
- BISAC2 : FICTION / Horror
- BISAC3 : FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
- BISAC4 : FICTION / Historical
- BISAC5 : FICTION / Ghost