A Spot of Bother

by Mark Haddon | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780099506928 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Sobergirl of Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on 9/11/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by Sobergirl from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Friday, September 11, 2009
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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. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.


Journal Entry 2 by Sobergirl from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Friday, September 11, 2009
I bought this book from the bookshelf of the Skopelos Animal Help Society on the last day of my holiday.

I read this book in a few days. It's a very entertaining story I think. Short chapters, You shouldn't get bored.

Released 14 yrs ago (11/18/2009 UTC) at The Old Shades Pub, Whitehall in City of Westminster, Greater London United Kingdom

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Old Shades, Whitehall, 6 pm

Released 14 yrs ago (11/20/2009 UTC) at New London Theatre, Drury Lane in Covent Garden, Greater London United Kingdom

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Picked up from a meet-up tonight as I thought this would go down well on our community bookshelves at work

I read thi not long after it first came out - and though I did enjoy it, it is not quite as engaging as 'The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Nighttime'

Journal Entry 5 by Vekiki from -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Having a bit of a clear-out so i'm re-releasing this

Journal Entry 6 by Vekiki at Church Street in Greenwich, Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Released 14 yrs ago (3/10/2010 UTC) at Church Street in Greenwich, Greater London United Kingdom

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left on a bench on the junction of Church Street & Stockwell Street

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