My Family and other Disasters

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Authors:
Lucy Mangan

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Retail Price (Softback): £7.99
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ISBN: 9780852651247
First Published: 2009

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'Hi Dad.' 'Who's calling, please?' 'It's Lucy ...Your daughter.' 'Ah, yes. Which one are you again? The one that reads or the one that shops?' For Lucy Mangan family life has never exactly been a bed of roses. With parents so parsimonious that if they had soup for a meal they would decline an accompanying drink (soup is a drink), and a grandmother who refused to sit down for 82 years so that she wouldn't wear out the sofa, Lucy spent most of her childhood oscillating between extreme states of anxiety. Fortunately, this hasn't affected her ability to write, and in this, her first collection of "Guardian" columns, she shares her hilarious take on everything from family relations to the credit crunch and why organized sport should be abolished.

Ken Giles

Publishers:
Guardian Books

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I've just finished reading Lucy Mangan's 'My Family and other Disasters'. Her articles in the UK's Guardian Newspaper weekend supplement are a Saturday breakfast treat! Lucy's humorous, satirical, self-mocking and gently cynical take on life, the universe and everything, including her relationship with her family and life in south-east London has my vote. Chapter titles are a roll-call of Lucy's world: I, weirdo; My so-called family; All you other freaks; Aaaargh! (Or, a few thoughts about the modern world); The view from the couch (the latter being Lucy's take on the world of TV). Just the book for a last-thing-at-night read as the prelude to restful sleep or to while away the dead hours at the airport or on the plane.... Read some of her articles at www.guardian.co.uk to get a taste.

Ken Giles

posted by David Shepherd on 7/3/2011 17:10