- Publisher: Headline
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 196x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781472239976
- Product code: 546644
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Blending dark humour and poignancy, Miles Jupp traces the unravelling midlife crisis of Clive Hapgood, a hapless private school teacher whose country idyll has begun to sour. As the half-term trip to France he hoped would offer respite descends into farce, professional scandal and marital strain push him ever closer to collapse.
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A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.
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...
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...
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Blending dark humour and poignancy, Miles Jupp traces the unravelling midlife crisis of Clive Hapgood, a hapless private school teacher whose country idyll has begun to sour. As the half-term trip to France he hoped would offer respite descends into farce, professional scandal and marital strain push him ever closer to collapse.
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