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Living in idyllic Bedford Park with her perfect husband, Alex, and two small children, Celia makes some elaborate plans for her upcoming fortieth birthday, but her innocent fun turns into disaster
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Mavis Cheek's novels include Janice Gentle Gets Sexy, Aunt Margaret's Lover, Sleeping Beauties, Getting Back Brahms, Three Men on a Plane, Mrs Fytton's Country Life and The Sex Life of My Aunt.
From Publishers Weekly
This second novel by the author of Pause Between Acts should be welcomed warmly by readers who devour fiction by satiric writers of the Fay Weldon and Patrick Gale variety. Cheek writes with a particularly brittle and dead-on wit that skewers her subjects, English yuppies who have contrived comfortable lives in the just-right suburb of Bedford Park. Celia and Alex appear to have everything, including two pleasant children, an impeccably tasteful house and elegant dinner parties. But the events surrounding Celia's 40th birthday party lead to chaos and infidelity all around. By the end of the book, life's possibilities have changed completely. Cheek's command of absurd situations and her razor-sharp dialogue is dazzling--this is the stuff of which the finest English screwball comedy films used to be made. Even the minor players, from the nosy, haughty cleaning lady to assorted friends and lovers, are richly drawn and perfectly cast. But, while harking back in spirit to Thorne Smith and E. F. Benson, this novel is also spiced with hilarious and explicit peccadillos, across which a discreet veil used to be drawn.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0671683098
- ISBN 13 9780671683092
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages287
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