Joseph Connolly Collection 7 Book Set - Summer Things, It Can't Go On, Jack the

Joseph Connolly Collection - 7 Book Set Titles in This Set: Summer Things It Can't Go On Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary Poor Souls This Is It Love is Strange The Works Description title by title: Summer Things An unforgettable trip to the further shores of lust, snobbery and adultery, Summer Things is the much-loved comedy by one of Britain's funniest novelists... unstoppable, startling and hilarious. It Can't Go On 'The repetitions and ruminations of a multitude of inner voices, the comic set pieces and the horrified hyperreal prose are as spot-on as ever.' Guardian Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary It is 1939 and Jackie and Mary are just two of the millions of ordinary Londoners whose lives are to be changed forever. Unmarried yet very much in love, the coming of war stimulates a transformation in them both... Poor Souls Joseph Connolly's unnervingly entertaining first novel takes place during one appalling week in 1985. His characters are Thatcher's poor lost souls, fuelled by booze and loathing. Wickedly funny, wickedly readable, this is a darkly comic novel from one of today's most gifted writers. This Is It Eric Pizer can just about keep his two lives going: weekends in the country with his wife, Bunty, getting sympathy he doesn't deserve; Mondays to Fridays in London with his pretend job, a house full of misfit tenants, and a girlfriend with secrets of her own. Once again, in This Is It, Joseph Connolly shows that he is the country's most original writer of black comedy. Love is Strange Rich in the cultural detail of Britain throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. The Works 'Entertaining, but emotionally and intellectually involving too, Connolly's memorable novel is a story of the light that failed.' Daily Telegraph