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These Foolish Things [Kindle Edition]

Deborah Moggach (Author)
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She writes beautifully, as always, and the phrase-making is as good as the characterisation... brilliant. --Sunday Telegraph

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These Foolish Things, a kind of less savage version of Kingsley Amis's unbearably funny novel Ending Up. Moggach's prose is markedly more graceful than Agatha Christie's, her moral world is not dissimilar', The Times .'It is characterisation at which Moggach excels. Her gift is to perceive and describe our confusions about life-and to write with feeling about the continual quest for love and happiness that is part of the human condition', Sunday Times
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 460 KB
  • Print Length: 337 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812982428
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (16 Feb 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B00755MILC
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (169 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #10,824 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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115 of 126 people found the following review helpful
The Big Question 26 Feb 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
I enjoyed reading this book. It ends up being quite a heartwarming story but it does take you on the journey of 'what have I done with my life' as all the characters in the book are asking the same thing as they are reaching the end of their lives. I had not seen the film before reading the book but knew which actors where playing which characters and it made the book live even more. It balances the needs, hopes and aspirations of older people who feel invisible in todays society with the lives of their children/friends and the world they now live in.
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69 of 76 people found the following review helpful
By A. Craig HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Her best novel since Tulip Fever, this is a brilliantly funny book about how to the elderly Britain has become a foreign country. An overworked India doctor sets up a retirement home in India, and a group of quirky pensioners make what is probably their last journey to where the Empire's sun never sets. The young Indians they meet are as clean and respectful as young British people are not - fascinated by details of their mundane lives which could make them convincing telesales workers. Yet there are complicated connections with the past which gradually emerge, and an unexpected romance. A wonderful, stylish, touching and bitter-sweet story about what Kingsley Amis called Ending Up.
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42 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
The book is nothing special. Maybe I shouldn't have seen the film, which I thoroughly enjoyed, as it did dictate the way I viewed the book. But that said, there are several changes between the two (no spoilers here), the film seemingly making the changes for the better. They are both heart-warming stories but the movie has the edge, with a well reworked screenplay and a very accomplished cast.

The humour in both is good - not laugh out loud comedy that found recently in books like Ben Elton's Popcorn or Tony Royden's wonderful dark comedy The Dealer, but it's still pretty good.

So a word of advice, if you plan to see the film (or have seen the film), I wouldn't read the book afterwards, as you will probably be as disappointed as I.
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