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Lessons For A Sunday Father

Claire Calman

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Published by Transworld Publishers

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EAN: 9781448126606
Published: 29 Feb 2012

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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO GROW UP...

This is the story of

SCOTT, who finds his belongings outside in a bin bag one day and realises he may have made a Big Mistake

GAIL, who wishes her husband were under guarantee so she could send him back and get a refund

NAT, who discovers that growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be

ROSIE, who just wants her Dad back - or if not, then at least some new glitter nail polish.

Four lives, one story: love, loss and learning to be a grown-up.

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What the critics say

Very funny...written with sympathy and humour
- The Times

This book is a tour de force
- Daily Express

Mature, sensitive and tear-teasing
- Mirror

Touching, hilarious and disarmingly accurate
- Red

The story is told through the eyes of all four members of the family, and Calman cleverly contrasts the different voices, sending an ache of pathos through the accounts of the two children, whose lives have been turned upside down by forces beyond their control...Funny, traumatic and with the searing sting of truth, this is a moving novel about the realignment of a family
- Marie Claire

A wry, touching and ultimately redemptive tale of love lost and gained
- Oxford Times

Claire Calman's Lessons for a Sunday Father is a masterpiece by a writer who understands the heartbreak and joy of the human condition like no other. In this story of the travails of a family struggling with infidelity and divorce, she writes with razor-like wit one moment, heartbreaking compassion the next...Highly recommended for men and women, and for intelligent readers everywhere
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Claire Calman is the author of four novels, Love is a Four Letter Word, Lessons For a Sunday Father, I Like it Like That and Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, all published by Black Swan.

Calman first decided to write a book when she discovered that it mainly involved making cups of tea and gazing out of the window. It was some time before a real writer friend pointed out that if she were to select an assortment of words and arrange them in some kind of order, this would speed up the process no end. Spurred on by this invaluable hint, she wrote Love is a Four Letter Word, a funny yet poignant story of love and loss.

Before she got into daydreaming full time, Calman spent several years working in women's magazines, then in book publishing, editing gardening books. She is also a poet and broadcaster and has performed her pithy verse at live readings and on radio many times, including for BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, Loose Ends, the comedy series Five Squeezy Pieces and for LBC. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines as well as in various anthologies, including Cheatin' Heart, the best-selling Girls' Night In, Summer Magic and A Day in the Life.

Claire Calman lives in London with her husband, son, and an unbelievable amount of unfiled paperwork.