What's So Flinking Bunny by Benedict Nightingale

What's So Flinking Bunny by Benedict Nightingale

Tristram Throstlethwaite has a problem - a big problem. Now, if only he could remember what it was and exactly how he got himself entangled in it, that problem would be very much simpler to solve...Could it be his abject failure in the dating game due to his inability to keep his girlfriends' names straight? Maybe his tangles with the law, inadvertently mugging a jogger and mistakenly being arrested for bank-robbery? Or perhaps, the huge, hulking fury of a man who clearly thinks that Tristram has insulted him in some mysterious way? What is abundantly clear, however, is the cause of all these woes - a debilitating and chronic absentmindedness that, try as he might, Tristram just cannot overcome. As his hilarious predicaments become ever more disastrous, Tristram finds solace in compiling his own Vague Book, in which he records the absentminded excesses of historical figures: among them Einstein, Edison, Beethoven and the Rev W.A. Spooner, father of the Spoonerism, who on one occasion proposed a loyal toast to 'the queer old dean', Queen Victoria. Anybody who has politely thanked a machine for issuing a ticket, or asked directions from a mannequin in a department store, wheeled off someone else's trolley in a supermarket, or simply mislaid keys, spectacles, hats or scarves should appreciate Benedict Nightingale's account of the many misadventures of Tristram Throstlethwaite.

'In a meandering plot that owes a happy debt to Tom Sharpe's Wilt, Nightingale engineers moments of finely calibrated farce that will induce guffaws and even eye-watering laughterAltogether, a root of a heed.' Metro 20101014 'With its combination of light-hearted comedy and dissemination of fascinating facts, this book would make a perfect present for theatre buffs and more general readers alike'. British Theatre Guide 201010 'Laugh-out-loud yarn about an absent-minded prof...(Nightingale) delights in the joys of linguistic confusion' Hammersmith & Fulham News 20101102

Benedict Nightingale has written for The Times for nearly 20 years as their chief theatre critic, and has published several books

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ISBN 13	9781906779931
ISBN 10	1906779937
Title	What's So Flinking Bunny
Author	Benedict Nightingale
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Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2010-09-25
Number of pages	256
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