Bleak Expectations
On sale
15th November 2012
Price: £14.99
Genre
Based on the beloved Radio 4 series, BLEAK EXPECTATIONS recounts the remarkable adventures of young Pip Bin as he tries to make his way in a world made all horrible by the machinations of his cruel guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent.
Grim circumstances, mistaken identities, nightmarish court-cases, ridiculous names, convenient coincidences to resolve plot problems, over-sentimental death scenes and lots and lots of adjectives: Bleak Expectations is a novel like Charles Dickens might have written after far too much gin.
Grim circumstances, mistaken identities, nightmarish court-cases, ridiculous names, convenient coincidences to resolve plot problems, over-sentimental death scenes and lots and lots of adjectives: Bleak Expectations is a novel like Charles Dickens might have written after far too much gin.
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Reviews
Deliciously irreverent spoof of all things Victorian and melodramatic....Evans keeps the gag rate high.
The funniest book since the one I haven't written yet. Mark Evans sets the bar annoyingly high.
A brilliant Dickens pastiche.