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Having a Lovely Time

By: Jenny Eclair
Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
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Meet the Dobsons and the Jamiesons: two ordinary families on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Joe Dobson left his wife and kids when his young girlfriend, Nina, discovered she was pregnant. Now he feels like a cliche and Nina feels like a drudge, swapping her wild nights out with friends for mild nights in wiping baby sick off the carpet. So when Joe announces that he's booked a week's luxury holiday in Italy, Nina is thrilled - until she realises Joe's kids, Saul and Tabitha, are coming along for the ride.

Meanwhile Guy Jamieson is sure this will be his last family holiday; he plans to leave his wife, Alice, on his return. Guy is a high-powered advertising director and Alice - with her elasticated skirts, inedible mince suppers and unshaven legs - just doesn't fit his image. But Alice has a secret plan of her own: to have another baby....

Funny, smart and refreshingly honest, Having a Lovely Time is all about infidelity, jealousy, resentment, recriminations and, just occasionally, love - from the Sunday Times best-selling author Jenny Eclair.

©2020 Jenny Eclair (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Dark Humour Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Funny Comedy

Critic Reviews

"Brilliant." (Sunday Express)

"Addictive." (Daily Mirror)

"Brutally funny." (Observer)
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Have re read this book so many times & it is even better hearing Jenny Eclair read it , it has so many laugh out loud moments, I hate to say it but there at least a few times when I think the descriptions of Alice sound like me 😂

Love this book

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My favourite book of Jenny's so far, all the better for her reading it 😁

Just fantastic

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Well told and very well read. Jenny has a uniquely expressed insight into human behaviours and relationships. So refreshing not to be a book full of cliche pop terminology yet current and thought provoking.

Throughly Enjoyed

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I wanted to like this book but I just found it offensive and crass. All the characters were unlikeable but maybe that was the point.

Hmm

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