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One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North, where there is nothing and no one to keep him. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change. Not that the ghosts of Henry's past are prepared to disappear without a struggle - his old school-friend and rival Osmond 'Hovis' Belkin, currently enjoying a spectacularly successful career in Hollywood, his tragic great aunt Marghanita for whom Henry once entertained a dangerous passion, and his father Izzi Nagel, upholsterer turned illusionist, fire-eater and origamist, whose shade Henry interrogates relentlessly. But the present clamours as loudly as the past. His dyspeptic neighbour Lachlan wants his sympathy, Lachlan's sloppy red setter, Angus, wants a walk, and Moira, the waitress with the crooked smile and custard hair who serves him cake and cappuccino, seems to want him. Kicking and screaming every inch of the way, Henry realises he might finally be falling in love. Will love be the making of Henry? Or will walking his neighbour's dog? Tender, funny and beautifully told, The Making of Henry is Howard Jacobson's richest novel to date. The writing makes you gasp with pleasure, the story builds effortlessly to its crescendo of revelations, and above all, it adds a new warmth to his reputation as the most exhilaratingly intelligent of contemporary novelists. (2003-12-08)

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...not just entertaining but often gloriously, edifyingly funny... -- Stephanie Merritt, The Observer

...terrific novel, full of pert observations and salty insights into the ageing process - not just Henry's, but the world's -- William Leith, Evening Standard

By page 16 I was laughing out loud - and I kept laughing until the end -- Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday

It's masterly writing... As always, it’s powerful, bang to rights, monstrously funny -- Michael Bywater, Independent

Jacobson’s writing is as luscious and funny as ever...you’re never far from comic brilliance -- Will Cohu, The Daily Telegraph

The writing is stuffed with brilliant hilarity and affectionate, suffer-thy-family Jewishness. -- Sandra Howard, The Spectator

This is a beautifully rounded portrait of a man gazing into the prism of the past... -- Gerald Jacobs, The Sunday Telegraph

This is a terrific novel, full of pert observations and salty insights into the ageing process... -- William Leith, Evening Standard
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Howard Jacobson is acclaimed as our greatest and most underrated novelist. He has just written his masterpiece.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0224073524
  • ISBN 13 9780224073523
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages352
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