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History

The hilarious, unmissable novel from the brilliant Miles Jupp

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History

By: Miles Jupp
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About this listen

The brilliant debut novel from acclaimed comedian, writer and presenter Miles Jupp.

Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched headteacher Julian Crouch. The gentle country life Clive envisaged has stifled him and left his marriage on the brink. What he needs is a holiday - something to remind him and Helen what life used to be like. But when things don't go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive's life starts to unravel in front of him. Has he got it in him to turn things around, whatever the cost? After all, it's his own time he's wasting....

For fans of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.

©2021 Miles Jupp (P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Funny Witty Heartfelt Hilarious History

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Critic reviews

"The funniest man in Britain has written a wonderful novel. Rejoice!" (Richard Osman)
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Aspects of ths book were good -the narration and some of the comedic scenes. However, the main character was annoying such that i found it difficult to care about him and I found the other characters lacking in depth or believability Worth a listen but not ss good as his autobiographical Fibber in the Heat as this book seemed to me Jupp attempt to get revenge againat his own privleged schooling.

fibber in the school

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I find Miles Jupp amusing on tv and radio but unfortunately didn’t enjoy this. It didn’t make me smile and I found the story uninteresting.

Not what I expected

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An enjoyable tale about a fairly hopeless teacher, his relationship with his family and himself. It was just on the right side of funny although a tad depressing at times but totally ran out of steam right at the end - did the author just run out of ideas? Very unsatisfactory after waiting to see how it played out. Turns out it didn’t really play out at all!

Enjoyable until the v unsatisfactory ending

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this is truly a book that grabbed me and I could not stop listening, I feel like he has written how I felt in a previous relationship, like me knew me, loved the book

not what I was expecting

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As a man I can say we swallow down emotion far too much and when it does come out it's not really understood. We get scared and sad and lonely but struggle sometimes to talk about it and it can come out in a different way....thats why male suicide is 3 or 4 times more than women and why homelessness is well over double that of women.
The end felt like it should be the middle of the book. I could chop out the holiday section of the book and put another few chapters on the end. Feels like a second book in the making.
I nearly wept several times during the book but I was surprised when the book ended...I wish I could give away the ending so I could explain why I was frustrated. Just to say if you know several men in a marriage I guarantee you will know this story. But I dont want to be one of those people who ruin books.

This book isnt for everyone but will connect to a big chunk of the population.
it's not laugh out loud hilarious but does have funny bits. Book isnt perfect but I quite liked it.

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