Poor Souls

(Barry and Susan are married, and would hate each other, i...)

Barry and Susan are married, and would hate each other, if only they could be bothered. Gavin and Moira are also married, and they hate each other quite openly. Barry's a failed editor ('The Big One', his pet book, never quite came off) and he drinks too much. Gavin? Well, Gavin's got a job too boring to talk about, but no doubt he will. Moira cooks dinner parties and has a very peculiar way of looking after her husband. Susan simply doesn't know what she wants. Then there's Hilary. Single mother Hilary wears a kimono when cooking with a wok and is quite her own man. And what about Annie, who loves Barry - and Barry says, between drinks, it isn't just an office fling, he loves her, he really loves her. Joseph Connolly's unnervingly entertaining first novel takes place during one appalling week in 1985. His characters are Thatcher's poor lost souls, fuelled by booze and loathing. Wickedly funny, wickedly readable, this is a darkly comic novel from one of today's most gifted writers.

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Winter Breaks by Connolly, Joseph (2014) Paperback

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Love is Strange

(From the mid-1950s to the present day, Love is Strange ch...)

From the mid-1950s to the present day, Love is Strange charts the everyday life and eventual unravelling of an apparently ordinary, middle-class, suburban family. By means of a perfectly paced narrative, superb dialogue and a series of highly emotive monologues, Joseph Connolly takes us into the very souls of the four family members. Clifford is an eight-year-old short-trousered schoolboy who yearns to be an adult; Annette, his troubled elder sister, is on the cusp of adolescence and coping badly with a convent education. Their mother Gillian, an archetypal fifties housewife, is devoted to Clifford, until life and events propel her elsewhere. Her husband Arthur is dictatorial and aloof, and in time his inner turmoil is to result in swift and devastating consequences for the family. Rich in the cultural detail of Britain throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. Love is Strange is destined to be one of the most celebrated novels of the autumn.

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Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary by Joseph Connolly (2014-05-01)

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Winter Breaks

(The cast of "Summer Things" is reunited for a Christmas p...)

The cast of "Summer Things" is reunited for a Christmas party at Elizabeth's World of Interiors home, giving the lubricious crew the chance for more farcical sexual misunderstandings and couplings. The hideous lothario, Miles McInerney, courts his richly deserved fate.

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Joseph Connolly Collection 7 Book Set - Summer Things, It Can't Go On, Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary, Poor Souls, This Is It, Love Is Strange, the Works

(Joseph Connolly Collection - 7 Book Set Titles in This Se...)

Joseph Connolly Collection - 7 Book Set Titles in This Set: Summer Things It Can't Go On Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary Poor Souls This Is It Love is Strange The Works Description title by title: Summer Things An unforgettable trip to the further shores of lust, snobbery and adultery, Summer Things is the much-loved comedy by one of Britain's funniest novelists... unstoppable, startling and hilarious. It Can't Go On 'The repetitions and ruminations of a multitude of inner voices, the comic set pieces and the horrified hyperreal prose are as spot-on as ever.' Guardian Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary It is 1939 and Jackie and Mary are just two of the millions of ordinary Londoners whose lives are to be changed forever. Unmarried yet very much in love, the coming of war stimulates a transformation in them both... Poor Souls Joseph Connolly's unnervingly entertaining first novel takes place during one appalling week in 1985. His characters are Thatcher's poor lost souls, fuelled by booze and loathing. Wickedly funny, wickedly readable, this is a darkly comic novel from one of today's most gifted writers. This Is It Eric Pizer can just about keep his two lives going: weekends in the country with his wife, Bunty, getting sympathy he doesn't deserve; Mondays to Fridays in London with his pretend job, a house full of misfit tenants, and a girlfriend with secrets of her own. Once again, in This Is It, Joseph Connolly shows that he is the country's most original writer of black comedy. Love is Strange Rich in the cultural detail of Britain throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. The Works 'Entertaining, but emotionally and intellectually involving too, Connolly's memorable novel is a story of the light that failed.' Daily Telegraph

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