Product Details
EAN: 9781407404776
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: CD, Audio
Release Date: 2007-08-01
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions (mm): 146 x 150 x 26
Weight: 282g
A Spot Of Bother
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. At fifty-seven, he is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or just loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. Then, unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip...This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plot lines removed.