Spot of Bother, a

Spot of Bother, a

Discover this brilliantly comic and moving bestselling novel by the award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise.<br /> <br /> At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray.<br /> <br /> The family is not pleased, as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has &#39;strangler&#39;s hands&#39;. Katie can&#39;t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband&#39;s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials.<br /> <br /> <br /> Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.