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John Harding was born in the Isle of Ely in 1951. After local village and grammar schools, he read English at Oxford. He worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor before becoming a freelance writer. His first novel, the bestselling What We Did On Our Holiday was shortlisted for the WHSmith New Talent Award. He lives in Richmond upon Thames with his wife and two sons.
Enormously enjoyable...Harding tackles this novel's huge, tragic subject with a blissfully skewed lightness of touch. * DEBORAH MOGGACH * Masterly...ambitious in scope and executed with wit and exuberance, John Harding has created a rich, complex and endearing fictitious world which holds important truths for our own. * DAILY MAIL * Instantly winning...it made me laugh. A lot...Gaugin-gaudy, and as rich and spicy as a good dish of stewed yam * DAILY TELEGRAPH * Blackly comic...intensely literary...an allusive tour de force... thoroughly entertaining. * THE TIMES * A multi-layered comedy...laugh-out-loud funny, ambitious, carefully constructed, addictive, this novel is one big damn fine achievement. * GLASGOW HERALD *
