My Family and Other Disasters - Softcover

Mangan, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852651244 ISBN 13: 9780852651247

Publisher: Guardian Books, 2009

Synopsis

'Hi Dad.'

'Who's calling, please?'

'It's Lucy ... Your daughter.'

'Ah, yes. Which one are you again? The one that reads or the one that shops?'

For Lucy Mangan family life has never exactly been a bed of roses.

With parents so parsimonious that if they had soup for a meal they would decline an accompanying drink (soup IS a drink), and a grandmother who refused to sit down for 82 years so that she wouldn't wear out the sofa, Lucy spent most of her childhood oscillating between extreme states of anxiety.

Fortunately, this hasn't affected her ability to write, and in this, her first collection of Guardian columns, she shares her hilarious take on everything from family relations to the credit crunch and why organised sport should be abolished.

About this title

Book Description:

One of the Guardian's most popular columnists shares her unique view of family life.

About the Author:

Lucy Mangan is a feature writer for the Guardian and author of Hopscotch and Handbags: The Truth about being a Girl.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guardian Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0852651244
• ISBN 13: 9780852651247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272