{"product_id":"a-spot-of-bother-by-mark-haddon-1","title":"A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At sixty-one, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, and listening to a bit of light jazz. Then his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting remarried, to the deeply inappropriate Ray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands.' Katie can't decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son, Jacob; and her mother, Jean, is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Haddon's disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stirring Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65892676632925,"sku":null,"price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1077\/7827\/7725\/files\/11158113482223.jpg?v=1789133041","url":"https:\/\/stirringpages.com\/nl\/products\/a-spot-of-bother-by-mark-haddon-1","provider":"Stirring Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}