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Camberwell Beauty Jenny Eclair

Camberwell Beauty By Jenny Eclair

Camberwell Beauty by Jenny Eclair


$20.49
Condition - Very Good
5 in stock

Summary

This volume of interconnected stories from Perrier Comedy Award-winning Jenny Eclair is a bitter-sweet collection. Each story focuses on the very different lives of a set of characters living in the same street, where happiness is a fragile thing and hairline cracks can become craters of misery.

Camberwell Beauty Summary

Camberwell Beauty by Jenny Eclair

Welcome to South London, to one of the nicest streets in one of London's vilest boroughs, a determined middle-class oasis of skips and bay trees, where Volvos sniff each others' bumpers and men called Giles live with women called Samantha. This is a satellite-dish-free zone of tall houses, standing shoulder to shoulder with big front doors, five floors apiece. Come inside, shut the door and smell the coffee: you could almost be in Kensington. This is where the actors, writers and media types live, where small children wearing smart uniforms and shoes in the shape of lightbulbs get ferried every day to schools that are not local. Some people are luckier than others; fortune smiles on some and gobs on the rest. Jo Metcalf (no. 95) smokes and spies on the smug Cunninghams down the street as they play their bile-inducing game of happy families. Why is the grass greener on the other side of the fence But happiness is a fragile thing and hairline cracks in a perfect world can become craters of misery. Each story is full of comic insight and realistic observation of contemporary British life and focuses on the very different lives of a set of characters living in the same street.

Camberwell Beauty Reviews

'This comedienne has always been a novelist-in-waiting . . . Eclair's modern cautionary tale has the same bittersweet wit that shapes her stand-up set, but there's nothing remotely funny about its dark conclusion' GUARDIAN

'Irreverant observations are thrown down gauntlet-like as [Eclair] rages on to the next gag.' THE TIMES

'Viciously funny and very well written.' DAILY MAIL

'A novel about relationships, parenthood and class that detonates every middle-class chick-lit cliche.' THE TIMES

'A furious plot that never loses its humour, even as events take a dark turn. No happy ending, but an unputdownable take on urban living.' HELLO

About Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair remains the sole female to win the prestigious Perrier Award for Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival. This is her first novel.

Additional information

GOR003632950
9780316853187
0316853186
Camberwell Beauty by Jenny Eclair
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown & Company
20000101
416
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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