- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Dump list (15 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 055276485X
- ISBN-13: 978-0552764858
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Some things just can't be undone. For Scott and Gail, Scott's five-minute indiscretion was the end of their 15-year marriage. Told from the individual perspectives of each member of the family, every chapter is a new voice and the family takes it in turns to tell us its story.
Scott is the husband and father, who feels rather a failure at both, and wonders how he will survive with the binliner of belongings his wife tossed out onto the front lawn; Gail, the wife and mother, is sick of being the responsible parent, and questions whether Scott's affair was just the excuse she was looking for to get out of her marriage; Nat, or Natty, is the 13-year-old son who resents his father for leaving, but likes to distract himself by winding up his little sister; and Rosie is a precocious nine-year-old, who loves her Daddy, the colour mauve, lollies and glittery nail polish.
Lessons for a Sunday Father is a clever, funny and poignant treatment of a sore subject--the break up of the family. It follows on from the success Calman achieved with Love is a Four Letter Word, for which she was short-listed for the "Finest First Novel Featuring Biscuits on the Cover" award. Calman is a writer whose awards even reflect her cynical and quirky sense of humour! --Neena Dutta --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Marie Claire
‘Funny, traumatic and with the searing sting of truth, this is a moving novel about the realignment of a family’
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I adored Love is a Four-Letter Word, so I was predisposed to enjoy Lessons for a Sunday Father. I was not disappointed. Calman is capable of making her readers laugh and cry simultaneously -- a rare talent.
As another reviewer mentioned, Rosie is a delight. But all the characters are so real that you can believe you know them and what they're going through.
I'm looking forward to Calman's next effort; I can only hope that she can continue to work her magic.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was a fantastic read. It's split into 4 different voices as a family (2 children, 2 parents) suffer a divorce. It's touching, poignant and at times funny...
But, as other amazon reviewers have noted, why on earth does it have a silly Chick Lit cover on the front? I had to make it point because as a result I was putting off buying this book for months until someone forced it onto me. I think it is a shame as publishers seem to do this more and more - wrapping an intelligent read by a female in a trashy cover, and I think it loses readers rather than gaining them! I would put Claire Calman in the ranks of other fine female writers such as Polly Sampson and Maggie O'Farrell for her insight and sensitivity...I look forward to more from Claire Calman.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found the jacket design of Claire Calman's "Lessons for a Sunday Father" rather misleading. It's much less of a fantasy love story than her excellent "Love is a Four Letter Word" which had a similar cover. This new novel is more nitty-gritty throughout. The rush of all kinds of emotions in the splitting marriage is full of the humour and sexiness of her first book but digs deeper, hurts more and feels true. The nine-year old Rosie is an unforgettable commentator from first to last. I loved it all.
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A great 4-way read!
What an excellent read. This book takes the perspective of 4 characters involved in a marriage break-up, the father, the mother and the 2 children. What an excellent idea! Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2001 by bradgirl
love and conflict in four voices
It's not often you find a book that makes you laugh a lot, cry a litte, and rings true as well. I enjoyed every minute of Claire Calman's "Lessons for a Sunday Father". Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2001
an easy but captivating read
The author does a great job of showing four different points of view of a more and more common domestic scenario i.e. the breakdown of a marriage. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2001
Amazingly humerous and moving
An incredible book: makes you laugh at times, and cry at others. Calman hits the nail on the head about a lot of issues faced by fathers, and makes one think a lot about how good... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2001
gently funny, moving and real
So many novels aimed at a twenty-something readership don't aspire to be much more than brain chewing-gum for the train to work, but like Claire Calman's first novel (Love is a... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2001
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