The Carer
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ISBN10: 1504077539
ISBN13: 9781504077538
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jul 19 2022
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781504077538
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jul 19 2022
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
[A] social comedy with some brilliant people observations about ageing and a devilish plot twist from the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (The Times, London). After their elderly father's fall, Phoebe and her brother, Robert, couldn't be happier with his new caregiver, Mandy. She came to them with great recommendations and has given the brilliant, yet lonely, widower a new lease on life--though he is gossiping about the locals' love affairs instead of debating science and politics. But Phoebe and Robert soon become suspicious of Mandy--her rummaging about in their father's papers, her strange inheritance from a former client, her habit of speaking her mind no matter the consequences. Then Robert discovers that their father has changed his will. Suddenly Mandy seems more devil than angel . . . For the first time in years, Phoebe and Robert are bonding over something--even if it is their mutual distrust of Mandy. And what happens next will make the siblings question everything they thought they knew about their parents--and themselves. Moggach addresses an all too common nightmare with ruthless honesty and sublime wit--The Carer is one of the funniest novels I have read for ages. --The Times (London) Unputdownable, fun and tender with characters that jump off the page. Perfection. --Marian Keyes, international-bestselling author of Again, Rachel Joyous . . . a sustained satire on smug middle-class mores. --Daily Mail The most endearing of humorists, Deborah Moggach casts a penetrating eye on our foibles and fantasies. Neither ageing, nor death--as The Carer so beautifully demonstrates--can resist her comic scrutiny. --Lisa Appignanesi, award-winning author of Mad, Bad, and Sad
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