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Happy Accidents (2004)

de Tiffany Murray

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Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic. Gran has been homesick for Coney Island for thirty-eight years, hating her husband but determinedly donning her best pink Chanel suit and high heels to step out into the muck-splattered farmyard. Grandpa is bonkers, an ex-naval Captain who wanders round the house shouting sea-faring commands. Mum's gone AWOL since she ran over Kate's dad in her soft-top Triumph Spitfire. And are those really Dad's ashes in a Hellmann's mayonnaise jar in the attic? Crackling with the darkest of dark humour, brimming with crazy ancestors and closely guarded secrets, HAPPY ACCIDENTS is a wonderful first novel that confirms Tiffany Murray as a rising star of British fiction.… (més)

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The book is quirky, in the beginning too quirky for me. Told from the point of view of an eleven year old girl who seems very childish in the beginning and incredibly precocious towards the end. I like crazy family stories - they make my own family seem so harmless ;-), so even though I thought it too obviously/engineered quirky at the beginning I warmed to the story and the crazy characters.

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This book reminded me of Cold Comfort Farm. It is set on a farm on the Welsh Boarders and is told through the eyes of a young girl, Kate Happy. Murray is skilled at conjering up fantastic images and whilst it is written in the third person, all the main characters are larger than life, with quirky personalities and distinctive voices (

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More variation in pitch and register might have made it easier to maintain purchase on the story. If such overegging can cause indigestion, Murray has shown she is a writer of singular felicity whose first novel holds out strong promise for the future

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Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic. Gran has been homesick for Coney Island for thirty-eight years, hating her husband but determinedly donning her best pink Chanel suit and high heels to step out into the muck-splattered farmyard. Grandpa is bonkers, an ex-naval Captain who wanders round the house shouting sea-faring commands. Mum's gone AWOL since she ran over Kate's dad in her soft-top Triumph Spitfire. And are those really Dad's ashes in a Hellmann's mayonnaise jar in the attic? Crackling with the darkest of dark humour, brimming with crazy ancestors and closely guarded secrets, HAPPY ACCIDENTS is a wonderful first novel that confirms Tiffany Murray as a rising star of British fiction.

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