Synopsis
Oliver is staying with his ex-wife for the summer and spends his days writing his autobiography in the laundry cupboard. As his efforts are continually interrupted, Constance his wife, has a very different interpretation of the past.
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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
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