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Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is he his own worst enemy?
Is it because he nearly ran away from boarding school on his third day or because, when he was fourteen, his mother developed a fatal friendship for a man who looked like Hitler? Does his sense of inadequacy stem from his once being mistaken for a draft of 350 men? Or from his failure long ago to do justice to the facilities at Mme Antoinette's Maison d'Amitié (Paris branch)? Has he been too slow with Sonia, too fast with Frances?
Whatever the reason, one act of brinkmanship seems to lead to another. Robert finds himself involved in a series of embarrassing farewells and confusing interviews and open and shut court case as he drifts towards the prospect of a stiflingly happy Christmas and an intolerably cheerful New Year.
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David Nobbs’s first break as a comedy writer came on the iconic satire show That Was The Week, That Was, hosted by David Frost. Later he wrote for The Frost Report and The Two Ronnies and provided material for many top comedians including Les Dawson, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Dick Emery. Apart from his twenty novels, David is best known for his two TV hit series A Bit of a Do and for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. David Nobbs died in 2015 at the age of eighty.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0586036644
- ISBN 13 9780586036648
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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A Piece of the Sky is Missing
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Granada Panther, London
(1973)
ISBN 10: 0586036644
ISBN 13: 9780586036648
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. Mass market paperback, 189 pages; front cover reader's crease, but very gently read, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Nobbs' The Complete Reginald Perrin [The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Return of Reginald Perrin, The Better World of Reginald Perrin], and the exceptionally rare The Death of Reginald Perrin. Seller Inventory # 039800
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