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Michael Gough, patriarch of the beleaguered Gough family, is reduced to borrowing a leaky barn for his living quarters. It's a far cry from the splendour of the family pile, Sitten Hall, which he was forced to 'gift' to the National Trust some twenty years ago. And worse is yet to come when his elderly mother, Granny Banana, falls out of the back of the Land Rover - a funeral is the last thing the Gough family can afford. But the least he can do is to give his mother the funeral she wanted, to be buried back at Sitten Hall in the same grave as her cherished terrier, Sprocket. But how to go about it when the family coffers are empty?
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Review:
'A brilliant comic elegy for a disappearing world' -- DBC Pierre
'An elegiac yet delightfully funny and eccentrically English
story...irresistible' -- Juliet Nicolson, author of THE PERFECT SUMMER
About the Author:
'An elegiac yet delightfully funny and eccentrically English
story...irresistible' -- Juliet Nicolson, author of THE PERFECT SUMMER
Sam North is a director with literary agency Conville & Walsh. He is the author of THE AUTOMATIC MAN, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, CHAPEL STREET, THE GIFTING PROGRAMME, BY DESIRE, THE LIE OF THE LAND, the Man Booker-longlisted THE UNNUMBERED, and THE VELVET ROOMS.
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- PublisherMagna Large Print Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0750529636
- ISBN 13 9780750529631
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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