Summary
Hitting the funny bone and touching the heart, the new novel by the author of What We Did On Our Holiday.
On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is translating Hamlet into local Pidgin English. Much to his annoyance, his struggles with the Bard are interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is a young American lawyer, he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and he has come to help. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same. Fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552999809 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552999806 |
| Author: | John Harding |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2006 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 127mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Enormously enjoyable…Harding tackles this novel’s huge, tragic subject with a blissfully skewed lightness of touch.
Enormously enjoyable…Harding tackles this novel’s huge, tragic subject with a blissfully skewed lightness of touch. * DEBORAH MOGGACH *
Masterly…ambitious in scope and executed with wit and exuberance, John Harding has created a rich, complex and endearing fictitious world which holds important truths for our own. * DAILY MAIL *
Instantly winning…it made me laugh. A lot…Gaugin-gaudy, and as rich and spicy as a good dish of stewed yam * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Blackly comic…intensely literary…an allusive tour de force… thoroughly entertaining. * THE TIMES *
A multi-layered comedy…laugh-out-loud funny, ambitious, carefully constructed, addictive, this novel is one big damn fine achievement. * GLASGOW HERALD *
Filled with memorable characters and generous helpings of wit and compassion…you will be hooked to the very end. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
A favourite of mine, a fine satirical work…highly imaginative. * SARAH BROADHURST, BOOKSELLER Paperback Preview 2006 *
Feel-good…life affirming…genuinely original…both laugh-out-loud funny and moving. * LITERARY REVIEW *
John Harding
John Harding
Born in the Isle of Ely in 1951, John Harding attended local village and grammar schools before reading English at Oxford. He began his career as a newspaper reporter, then moved into magazine writing and editing, eventually becoming a freelance writer.
His first novel, the bestselling What We Did On Our Holiday, was shortlisted for the WHSmith New Talent Award. He currently resides in Richmond upon Thames with his wife and two sons.
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