Like a House on Fire

Name: Like a House on Fire
SKU: 9781409178361
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George and Stella’s marriage is over. They can’t decide exactly when that happened (Was it the Coke can? Or that comment about Jurassic Park?), but they both agree that it has. A couple of months after the separation, Stella’s mother, Margaret ‘The Force of Nature’ Foy sends out invites for her murder mystery anniversary party – with George on the invite list. Stella hasn’t told her parents about the divorce, she couldn’t bring herself to. And with her father’s business shutting down, Margaret’s recent cancer diagnosis and some very odd behaviour from her older sister Helen, now is clearly not a good time. All they have to do is make it through the day without their secret being discovered. And in doing so, they may find each other again – or see their past and future both go up in flames!

SKU: 9781409178361 Category: General Fiction Tags: Dating, relationships, living together & marriage, Family & health, Family & relationships, Humour, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Retirement, Separation & divorce, Therapy & therapeutics

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‘Joyously wicked… I loved it’ RUTH JONES
‘Warm, witty & brilliantly realised’ DAILY MAIL
‘Part Fleabag, part Agatha Christie’ JOSIE SILVER

ALL STELLA AND GEORGE HAVE TO DO IS…

Hide their breakup
After a series of blazing rows about everything from Jurassic Park to installing car seats for their (hypothetical) children, Stella and George are getting divorced.

Catch a murderer*
But first, Stella’s mum is throwing a murder mystery party – and with her dad losing his job and her mum’s recent diagnosis, now is hardly the time to tell everyone.

Make it through one last family party
Stella and George just have to get through the day without their breakup being discovered – though it will soon turn out that keeping secrets runs in the family…

*pretend murderer

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Praise for LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE:

‘When it comes to personal relationships, Caroline Hulse dares to show us what we humans are really like. Her sparkling dialogue, astute observations and gloriously irreverent humour make Like A House On Fire a joyously wicked read that will cheer you up no end. A genuine tonic. So clever, so funny and so refreshingly different. I loved it’ RUTH JONES

‘Part Fleabag, part Agatha Christie, Like A House On Fire is everything I love in a book’ JOSIE SILVER

‘Painfully astute and brilliantly funny’ BETH O’LEARY

‘A deliciously dark comedy of manners’ DAILY EXPRESS

‘Acutely observed… Very Nina Stibbe’ CLARE MACKINTOSH

‘Funny and sad and relatable and deeply human’ HARRIET TYCE