The Embarrassing Parents: And Other Social Stereotypes from the Telegraph Magazine - Hardcover

Mather, Victoria; Macartney-Snape, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719562317 ISBN 13: 9780719562310

Publisher: John Murray, 2002

Synopsis

Why can't you just grow up? chorus the kids on the way home from yet another party at which Dick and Patsy have made an exhibition of themselves, gyrating wildly to La Bamba and clearing the dance floor with their contortions during Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive. Can't family life be cringey? Emotionally exhausting, too, when the eldest daughter is lying upstairs in a sea of damp Kleenex, weeping into her mobile after being dumped by her boyfriend Giles, and son Jamie is upsetting all the family's old Australian friends with his louche behaviour on his gap year in Sydney. In the book their fans have been waiting for, Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape introduce a new cast of deliciously recognizable characters, from Serena the Flirt and her current prey Roderick (Running the Deutsche Gremlin Bank must be so exciting), to Abigail the Terrible Flatmate, with her cabbage soup diet and greying bras draped across the bath.

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Review:

Neither I, The Embarrassing Parent, nor my daughter The Gap Year Student, can live without Social Stereotypes. (Emma Soames)

Victoria Mather and Sue Macartney-Snape are not so much observers, more collectors, pinning their victims like butterflies in a display cabinet. Their observations are made with the wit and humour necessary to survive in the circles they move in. Very enjoyable. (Michael Parkinson)

From the Publisher:

This is the new bestseller from the authors of the acclaimed column in the Telegraph Magazine. It is hilarious and cuttingly accurate of the characters that make up British society.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0719562317
• ISBN 13: 9780719562310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96