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Having A Lovely Time

An addictively funny novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

By: Jenny Eclair

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Paperback | 7 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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1.9 x 12.6 x 19.7

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Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Joe Dobson left his wife and kids when his young girlfriend Nina discovered she was pregnant. Now he feels like a cliche and Nina feels like a drudge, swapping her wild nights out with friends for mild nights in wiping baby sick off the carpet. So when Joe announces that he's booked a week's luxury holiday in Italy, Nina is thrilled - until she realises Joe's kids Saul and Tabitha are coming along for the ride.

Meanwhile Guy Jamieson is sure this will be his last family holiday; he plans to leave his wife Alice on his return. Guy is a high-powered advertising director, and Alice - with her elasticated skirts, inedible mince suppers and unshaven legs - just doesn't fit his image. But Alice has a secret plan of her own: to have another baby...

Funny, smart and refreshingly honest, HAVING A LOVELY TIME is all about infidelity, jealousy, resentment, recriminations and, just occasionally, love.

Industry Reviews

A funny, cleverly observed tale of modern family life, love and adultery - New Woman

Attacks the myth of happy families with characteristic acerbic humour ... a good, light read, with some brutally funny lines - Observer

A heartbreaking yet funny read - Heat

Honest and raucously funny - Glamour

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