Product Description
How do you get over the death of your mother?
If you're Michael, David and Laney Hampton - who are just teenagers when their mother dies in a household accident - you do it very, very badly and very, very slowly.
For David, the grieving process involves grabbing the nearest girl and dragging her to the funeral. It helps that she's gorgeous, but that's not entirely the point...
For Laney, things are altogether more complicated. After a brief flirtation with youthful abandon, she descends into an inner world of madness from which she might never escape.
And for Michael, it gets really messy. As he grows older, he loses touch with his siblings, he marries a beautiful woman and then cheats on her, he looks up an old friend who isn't even an old friend, and finally he heads back to his father's house and discovers the secret to his messed-up life in the most unlikely place imaginable.
At War With the Hamptons is a comic novel about love and grief, about live and death, and about the messy loose ends that are left behind when someone dies.
Note: Contains mild bad language and sexual situations. Has a few experimental sections as well. Humour is often very dark. Word count approx 21,000 words.
If you're Michael, David and Laney Hampton - who are just teenagers when their mother dies in a household accident - you do it very, very badly and very, very slowly.
For David, the grieving process involves grabbing the nearest girl and dragging her to the funeral. It helps that she's gorgeous, but that's not entirely the point...
For Laney, things are altogether more complicated. After a brief flirtation with youthful abandon, she descends into an inner world of madness from which she might never escape.
And for Michael, it gets really messy. As he grows older, he loses touch with his siblings, he marries a beautiful woman and then cheats on her, he looks up an old friend who isn't even an old friend, and finally he heads back to his father's house and discovers the secret to his messed-up life in the most unlikely place imaginable.
At War With the Hamptons is a comic novel about love and grief, about live and death, and about the messy loose ends that are left behind when someone dies.
Note: Contains mild bad language and sexual situations. Has a few experimental sections as well. Humour is often very dark. Word count approx 21,000 words.
