A Spot of Bother

by Mark Haddon | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780099506928 Global Overview for this book
Registered by bigcurlyloz of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom on 6/21/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by bigcurlyloz from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom on Sunday, June 21, 2009
Poignant and very funny. It's all the small details and observations that make this a wonderful book. Brilliant.

"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.

At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has ‘strangler’s hands’. Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and 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 former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.

Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind." - back cover

Journal Entry 2 by lwpallett on Sunday, May 16, 2010
I found this one a bit difficult to get into, but once I had it was really brilliant. As loz says, it was the samll things that really made it.

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