November 2012 Book of the Month.
Bleak Expectations began as a riotously funny Sony Award winning Radio 4 comedy but it was so amazing it has transformed itself into an equally splendid book. Featuring added jokes and lots of extra bits of story and additional dimensions to characters, it recounts the adventures of young Pip Bin as he tries to repair his destroyed family and distinctly damaged life, aided by his best friend Harry Biscuit and definitely not aided by his cruel and ironically named guardian Mr Gently Benevolent and his accomplices, the fearsome Hardthrasher siblings. Add in grim circumstances, mistaken identities, unlikely inheritances, nightmarish court cases, ridiculous names, convenient coincidences to resolve plot problems, over-sentimental death scenes and lots and lots of adjectives: Bleak Expectations is the novel Charles Dickens might have written after drinking far too much gin.
Weep! As Pip is sent to Britain's nastiest boarding school, St Bastard's. Gasp!
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Weep! As Pip is sent to Britain's nastiest boarding school, St Bastard's.
Bleak Expectations features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Humour, Books of the Month, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories
Paperback, Hardback, CD-Audio. Not Available.
Bleak Expectations was written by Mark Evans and published by Corsair an imprint of Constable and Robinson
