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Family Politics

A razor sharp satire from the bestselling author of May Contain Nuts

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Family Politics

Yazan: John O'Farrell
Seslendiren: Claudie Blakey
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All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics.

But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie Hughes, the return of their only child is a far greater challenge than they ever could have anticipated. Young Dylan had warned them there was something personal he needed to tell them, but nothing could have prepared his right-on parents for the shocking revelation he delivers. Their son is a Conservative.

With his customary warm-hearted wit and razor-sharp political satire, John O’Farrell delivers another hilarious and entertaining dissection of the zeitgeist and offers a funny and insightful antidote to our divided times.

‘John O’Farrell couldn’t be unfunny if he tried’ Alan Johnson
‘A touch of self-deprecation and a sense of humour… John O’Farrell has these qualities in spades’ Guardian
‘O’Farrell is a consistently humorous writer with an acute ear for the absurdities of middle class pretension’ Mail on Sunday

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The narrative has some nice set pieces such as the Question Time episode but overall it’s laden with familiar cliched political figures from both the left and right with a plot that was ultimately unsatisfying.

Stereotypes and cliches ahoy!

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This is an extremely enjoyable book, due in large part to good writing and in no small part to great narrating. The humour rarely lets up, even, or especially, when it is making a serious insightful point, which it does on more than a few occasion. While some of the stereoryping may be occasionally jarring, it is difficult to work out whether this is because such stereotypes are useful for the effect of parodying the left, or god forbid, because there is more than a grain of truth to them.
The story is told through from the view of the wife and mother, a job which the male author appears to have managed to mostly pull off rather effortlessly, although not being a woman myself, this remains a mere presumption. But the effect is funny and thoughtful.

The humour

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LOVED it- hilarious, brilliant, clever! I found myself wanting to pick this up CONSTANTLY! Must read

Narration and narrative voice - brilliant! Narrator really brought it to life

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Clever intellectual witt with amusing characters, read brilliantly which made me laugh out loud, loved it!

Hilarious

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I got off to a slow start and did not like the narrator until I was well into the book. Worth pursuing as it has some very funny episodes. In the end the narrator was a good choice for the book.

Better than expected

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