Are We Having Fun Yet?

Are We Having Fun Yet?
Lucy Mangan
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NZ$ 20.99
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 320pg
9 Jun 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781788161077
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Taking its cue from Diary of a Provincial Lady, EM Delafield' s dry-witted classic of domesticity and other vexations, Diary Of A Suburban Lady is a comic novel about the vicissitudes of domestic life chez frantic narrator Liz Dashwood. Like Bridget Jones (the third) without the death. Like Fleabag without the glamour or the priest and in a book. Like Nina Stibbe before she thinks of it. From the deep rage of knowing where to find every single thing your husband is looking for to the joy of a friend' s longed-for pregnancy, here is the pleasurable stab of fellow feeling you get over drinks with friends. Liz records her ups and downs, including the love of a good cat (up), not being able to find a babysitter (secret up) and the question of what ' we' really means when it comes to fixing the dishwasher (definitely, definitely down). Spiky, charming and most of all loving, it' s a hilarious skewering of the sweetness and nightmare that is modern family life.
Utterly wonderful . . . full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry -- Marian Keyes I read everything by Lucy Mangan, she is one of the funniest writers in Britain. -- Jenny Colgan Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up. Lucy Mangan is a fucking genius. SO MUCH WISDOM IN IT. SO MUCH ANGER. SO MUCH LOVE. SO MUCH LOL. It' s just exquisite -- Caitlin Moran Family life under the microscope - scalpel sharp and gloriously real. Pure Mangan: witty and wickedly funny -- Jenny Eclair Lucy Mangan nails the absurd pitfalls of modern life/marriage/small children so completely and honestly, but with a lightness of touch that means the overall effect is calming and nourishing and feels like having a really good chat with a kind and loving friend. And so funny! I was shaking the bed with my laughter. -- Cathy Rentzenbrink Compelling, connecting humour from start to finish . . . motherhood made funny -- Helen Lederer A glorious, outrageously funny retelling of E. M. Delafield' s Diary of a Provincial Lady. At once a celebration of the joy of family life and a cry of anguish at the utter hell of it. Laugh out loud, compulsive reading. -- Nina Stibbe
Lucy Mangan is a journalist and columnist. She spent two years training as a solicitor, but left as soon as she qualified and went to work much more happily in a bookshop instead. She got a work experience placement at the Guardian in 2003 and hung around until they gave her a job. She has a weekly column in Stylist magazine. Lucy' s memoir BOOKWORM, a personal history and celebration of children' s literature, was published by Square Peg in March 2018.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788161077
Published: 9 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Souvenir Press
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 320

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