A spot of bother
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780307278869
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Older men; Mortality; Fiction
Description: At the age of sixty-one, George Hall settles to a comfortable retirement. His tempestuous daughter, Katie, then announces that she is getting remarried to the deeply inappropriate Ray to her family's displeasure. Her mother, Jean, is disgusted with the huge preparation the wedding entails, which also disrupts her late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. The seemingly neat and pleasant life of George and Jean's son, Jamie, disintegrates when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.