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Guy Bellamy - The Comedy Hotel (Viking)

ISBN 0-670-84634-1

First published 1992

Nothing particularly deep or serious here, just a story of three couples and their teenage children. The children get into trouble, a marriage breaks up, a career fails, champagne is drunk and Gucci handbags are purchased.

Bellamy is a funny writer; he makes me laugh. Sometimes his sarcasm is quietly understated, and sometimes he hits you in the face with it.

This book does seem a little bit dated to me; it's set in the early years of the recession, when I was about the age of the teenagers featured, but I still enjoyed it, perhaps as a symbol of a world that no longer exists, where women are given pocket money even when their husbands are broke, and characters drink-drive to their hearts' content and never get caught.

4 April 1998
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