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Camberwell Beauty

By: Jenny Eclair

Narrated by: Jenny Eclair

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Welcome to one of the nicest streets in one of London's vilest boroughs: a determined middle-class oasis of skips and bay trees, where Volvos sniff each others' bumpers and men called Giles live with women called Samantha.

This is a satellite-dish-free zone of tall houses, standing shoulder to shoulder with big front doors, five floors apiece. Come inside, shut the door and smell the coffee: you could almost be in Kensington. This is where the actors, writers and media types live, where small children wearing smart uniforms and shoes in the shape of lightbulbs get ferried every day to schools that are not local.

Some people are luckier than others; fortune smiles on some and gobs on the rest. Jo Metcalf (no. 95) smokes and spies on the smug Cunninghams down the street as they play their bile-inducing game of happy families. Why is the grass greener on the other side of the fence? But happiness is a fragile thing and hairline cracks in a perfect world can become craters of misery....

Full of comic insight and realistic observation of contemporary British life, this is the debut novel from Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Eclair.

City Life

Dark Humour

Family Life

Genre Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Romance

Urban

Fiction

Comedy

City

Happiness

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Definitely laugh out loud on more than one occasion but completely implausible in others. Very glad that I was listening with ear buds on more than one occasion as some of the most implausible sections were also unnecessarily crude and added nothing to the storyline or the development of the individual’s character.

Mostly enjoyable but overly crude in places