| Language | English |
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| ISBN-10 | 0-8021-7015-3 |
| No of pages | 319 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Perseus Books Group |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-8021-7015-3 |
| No of pages | 319 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Perseus Books Group |
John O’Farrell was born in Maidenhead in 1962. Things Can Only Get Worse?, the long-awaited sequel to his iconic first book Things Can Only Get Better?, was a number one best-seller and remains one of the most popular political memoirs ever written.
In the decades in between, he has published five novels: The Man Who Forgot His Wife, May Contain Nuts, This Is Your Life, The Best a Man Can Get and most recently There’s Only Two David Beckhams. He has also written the bestselling history books An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain.
One of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and non-fiction, his books have been translated into over twenty-five languages and been adapted for radio and television. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as Spitting Image, Have I Got News For You, Smith & Jones and Chicken Run, he was the founder of Britain’s first daily news satire website NewsBiscuit and he co-wrote the musical Something Rotten! which opened on Broadway in April 2015.
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Alice never imagined she would end up like this, so anxious after hearing about the dangers of meteorites that she makes her children wear bike helmets in the wading pool. Her husband, David, has taught their four-year-old to list every animal represented in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
But the more they push their children, the more things there are to worry about. It seems no amount of gluten rationing or herbal teas can improve their children's intellectual development, and as Alice's eldest child looks set to fail her entrance exam for the exclusive private school on which her parents have pinned all their hopes, Alice decides to take matters into her own hands.
With a baseball cap pulled low over her face, Alice shuffles into a hall of two hundred kids and takes the test in place of her daughter, her first examination in twenty years. With a comic eye for detail that has sent his books to the top of the British best-seller lists, May Contain Nuts is a funny, compelling, and provocative satire of the manic world of today's overcompetitive, overprotective families.