Taking the Devil's Advice [Large Print] [Paperback]

A brilliantly orchestrated slanging-match' Independent --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea. Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing would be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple - and they're just about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea.

Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing to be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple. Now they're about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways.

'A brilliantly orchestrated slanging-match' Independent

'Anne Fine's black comedy bounces along its sprightly one-liners without flagging' Observer

'Shot through with wit, and full of effervescence and good humour' Financial Times

'It is said to take two to make a quarrel but the casus belli for Constance after sixteen years of marriage is her philosopher husband Oliver's serene unawareness of ever having given grounds for one...clever and entertaining...a direly witty achievement' Guardian

'Alive with brazen charm' Mail on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Anne Fine
Anne Fine is also a distinguished writer for young people, and has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children's Award twice, the Guardian Children's Literature Award and a Smarties Prize. An adaptation of her novel Goggle-Eyes has been shown by the BBC, and Twentieth-Century Fox filmed her novel Madame Doubtfire as Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages. Anne Fine has two grown-up daughters and lives in County Durham.
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