‘Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday ‘Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express ‘A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart’ Daily Mail ‘Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday ‘Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express ‘A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart’ Daily Mail Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.   A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.‘Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday‘Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express ‘A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart’ Daily Mail ‘Wistful, touching and funny, it looks back at the glory days of the family without losing hope for the future. In the end, it is a deeply touching book: a love letter to a son from his father, and to a father from his son’Mail on Sunday‘One of the finest books published this year… Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’Express‘Parsons has written a sharp, witty and wise book straight from his heart. His characters are all nitty-gritty, bounce-off-the-page, real people; his dialogue is brilliant’Daily Mail‘A touching novel… full of quiet tenderness, and written from the heart’IndependentA fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way.Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.'Man and Boy' is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean.Read by Alan Cummings, 'Man and Boy' is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.Tony Parsons is an award-winning journalist and a bestselling novelist. He left school at 16 to work in Gordon’s gin factory and his first job in journalism was as a staff writer on New Musical Express. His novel Man and Boy became a publishing phenomenon – a multi-million copy bestseller, winner of the UK Book of the Year award and translated into over 40 languages. Tony lives in London with his wife, daughter and their dog, Stan.Requires internet connection for purchase, plus iPod or other Audible-compatible player or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows• Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, now over 1.2 million copies sold• Whitakers Gold Award-winning in paperback• An author who is highly visible in the media – blanket coverage for latest hardcover, hugely favourable to the book• A book that hits all the topical notes about parenting and marriage. One that men will listen to with a toe-curling sense of recognition and women will read to find out what makes men tick!• The author himself brought up his son on his ownCompetition: One Day;Us;Ordinary people;About a Boy;Starter for Ten;Half a World Away;The Rosie Project;Taken;Max Wolfe;Things We Never Said;Dumped Actually. by;Helen Fielding;Nick Hornby;David Nicholls;Mark Watson;Graeme Simsion;Mark Haddon;Mike Gayle;Nick Alexander;Jonas Jonasson;Frederik Backman;Nick Spalding
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