Before Getting Rid of Gil & Josh and About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You by Stephen Benatar

Before Getting Rid of Gil & Josh and About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You by Stephen Benatar

Before Getting Rid of Gil and Josh is both a love story and a comedy-thriller, rather than any stark account of homicide. It is set in 1954, before it was legal for two men sexually to love one another and follows the attempt of an MP's twin to blackmail him. The MP and his partner decide they have to scare off this sibling but when their tactics unexpectedly result in death, they have to resort to desperate measures to avoid suspicion falling in the right place. About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You can be seen as a latter-day Brief Encounter, occurring some forty years later, in 1986. It concerns Stella McCabe, an attractive middle-aged woman who is thinking of leaving her husband and becoming the sort of person she would like herself to be - independent and far less conventional. Her world is diverted when she meets a man of half her age who turns out to be a Chippendale-type stripper - and, ridiculously, starts to fall in love with him. Is Vince the catalyst she needs or can a selfish husband undergo a change of heart? Both books are lively, entertaining, and transport the reader to a world of light-hearted fiction, and once begun, will grip its reader until the final pages have been turned. Praise for Stephen Benatar's previous works: A masterpiece...matchlessly clever...wholly unique - John Carey, Literary Critic Benatar writes with wit and humour about subjects most writers do not tackle - ageing, age, the frequent nastiness of family life. - Doris Lessing With this marvellous book, poetry and character return to the English novel. - The Times Literary Supplement

Stephen Benatar wrote over a dozen novels but only the last made it to publication. Eight other novels followed - one published by a Borough council, the first and only time a council has produced fiction. There have also been two plays and two children's books. In 1983 he was awarded a GBP7000 bursary by the Arts Council and Boston University in MA is now the repository for all his papers and manuscripts. He lives in West London.

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ISBN 13	9781789015188
ISBN 10	1789015189
Title	Before Getting Rid of Gil & Josh and About a Boat Trip, a Hold Up, a Strip Show and You
Author	Stephen Benatar
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Troubador Publishing
Year published	2018-11-28
Number of pages	352
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