Bob Mortimer
Auteur de The Satsuma Complex
Œuvres de Bob Mortimer
The World of Football According to Athletico Mince 2 exemplaires
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 2 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing: Series 3 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Mortimer, Robert Renwick
- Date de naissance
- 1959-05-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- United Kingdom
- Lieu de naissance
- Middlesbrough, Teeside, England, UK
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 590
- Popularité
- #42,530
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 28
- Langues
- 1
A bit bonkers, slightly surreal and laugh-out-loud funny, it is interwoven with threads of darkness, poignancy and extreme violence.
Disenchanted with his day job and disinclined to give his Peckham flat any sense of permanency, Gary’s high points are Saturday pie with Grace next door and Battenberg with banter at Wayne’s coffee shop until the fateful evening he agrees to meet Brendan at his local for a pint where he is drawn to a pretty, dark-haired girl he names Satsuma (after the book she’s reading – it could happen to you!) and listens to his guffawing, garrulous work colleague for the last time.
What follows is a well-constructed murder mystery with twists a-plenty, great character development, sad back stories and many hysterical moments. Alternative herbal tea, DIY health food bars and lower back pain remedies. Attic invaders, ducks and mouth-watering jelly snakes!
And then there’s the squirrel.
Of course there’s a squirrel.
What better sounding board than a bushy-tailed buddy?
I loved the humour, the harsh realities and the pacy plot as well as the portrayal of Gary, Emily, Grace and all the other characters, bad and badder.… (plus d'informations)