Binding: Paperback
Description: A witty new novel about three self - proclaimed old bags who run off to a Greek island Since their children left home Ruth Dania and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they re beset by children again this time their grandchildren. In order to escape they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first settled on a glorious island barefoot and contented they think they ve rediscovered the wheel. But then things begin to go awry. Dionysus a local poet takes up with Bess at least until his wife gets wind of things. Dania a therapist is being stalked by one of her patients. And Ruth's ex - lover turns up out of the blue closely followed by the man who lost Bess her fortune. It doesn t help when the children and grandchildren also start turning up whenever they feel like it. As Bess writes in one of Ruth's weekly Granny Go Go columns this is not an Enchanted April sort of year. Lynn Freed's previous novels have received rave reviews everywhere from The New York Times Book Review (Makes us laugh while packing finally a punch ) to the Los Angeles Times Book Review (Deeply absorbing and ambitious Astonishingly vivid ). In The Last Laugh she returns with a beautifully written and funny novel about money sex friendship and the pleasures and perils of children.
Title: The Last Laugh A Novel
Author(s): Freed Lynn
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250182104
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/3/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction