Marieke Hardy gave this short little book a rap on one of the First Tuesday Book Club episodes some time back and although I didn’t seek it out, I happened to find myself in a Book Grocer store where it glared out at me from the Comedy/Humour Writing section.
And what a little classic it is. Penned by Sebastian Faulks it basically takes the piss out of the classics. It’s only 100 odd pages long and as it’s written in prose, it can be read in little snatches here and there (before bed, on the train/tram etc) or I sat down one night last week and read it in an entire sitting, cracking up. I found particularly amusing Alan Bennett, Jane Austen and Raymond Chandler.
Very clever.
