These Foolish Things

Moggach, Deborah

ISBN 10: 0701176202 / ISBN 13: 9780701176204

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2004

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Chatto & Windus 2004 First edition hardback. Sun fading to jacket spine With covers and inside EXCELLENT CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER AS NEW. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: These Foolish Things
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701176202
• ISBN 13: 9780701176204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • literature novel

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Synopsis

A thoroughly enjoyable black comedy from the author of Tulip Fever.

Dr. Ravi Kapoor has reached the end of his tether. He is over-worked and exhausted; his South London hospital is out of funds; and reporters are hounding him about the death of a pensioner, who, for three days lay on a trolley untended, the blood stiffening on her clothes. Even home life has become impossible as his father-in-law, a disgusting and difficult old man, has been kicked out of his nursing home and has moved into Ravi’s spare bedroom. But then that “tip top man,” his cousin, Sonny, has a brainwave, his “great eureka.”

Dunroamin is a converted guesthouse in Bangalore, where Sonny starts a home for old people. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful -- and the British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and take mango-juice with their gin.

Skillfully inter-weaving the stories of the inhabitants of Dunroamin, their characters and their families, Deborah Moggach has created a world in which hilarity is matched with the poignancy of getting old, and comedy with the darker issues of care in the community.

About the Author

Deborah Moggach is the prize-winning author of numerous screenplays and her many novels include the bestselling Tulip Fever and Porky.