Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 May 2012.
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a Chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit.
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Marcus and Doro were part of a commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, radical politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotas, crochet, allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary school teacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents that he is still doing a Maths PhD at Cambridge, while in fact working making loads of money in the City; while third child Oolie Anna, who has Downs Syndrome, is desperate to escape home and live on her own. Once the truth starts breaking through, who knows what further secrets will be revealed about any of them?
Various Pets Alive and Dead features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Various Pets Alive and Dead is available in Paperback
Various Pets Alive and Dead was written by Marina Lewycka and published by Fig Tree an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Various Pets Alive and Dead has 367 pages
