Happy Accidents
- ISBN-10
- 0007183674
- ISBN-13
- 9780007183678
- Series
- Happy Accidents
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Author
- Tiffany Murray
Description
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.
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- 2017-09-05
- 208 pages
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- 2017-08-21
- 208 pages
- Ebook
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- 2017-08-14
- 208 pages
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