Things Can Only Get Better

John O'Farrell

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English

Black Swan
15 May 2017

Autobiography: historical, political & military; Social & cultural history; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Elections & referenda

The hilarious account of eighteen miserable years in the life of a Labour supporter.

Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British people to f
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Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level- school candidate- door-to-door canvasser- working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing as a council candidate; and eventually writing jokes for a shadow cabinet minister.

Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as chicken tikki masala and that the nuclear arms race was never going to be stopped by face painting alone.

By: John O'Farrell
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 237g
ISBN: 9781784163211
ISBN 10: 178416321X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John O'Farrell is the author of seven books. His first book, Things Can Only Get Better, was a number one bestseller and was dramatized for BBC Radio 4. The Best a Man Can Get was the bestselling debut novel of 2002. As well as being a bestselling author, John O'Farrell is a regular contributor to television and radio. For the past five years he has written a weekly humorous column for the Guardian, three collections of which have been published as Global Village Idiot, I Blame the Scapegoats and I Have a Bream.

Reviews for Things Can Only Get Better

'The funniest book I have read for two and a half years' -- Arthur Smith 'The whingeing memoirs of a snivelling leftie. The man should be shot' -- Jack Dee 'Very funny' Mail on Sunday 'Excellent...Whatever your politics Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud' -- Angus Deayton 'Very funny' The Times

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