One for My Baby

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  One For My Baby Tony Parsons HarperCollins £15.99, pp330 'You should never underestimate the power of the nuclear family,' warns Harry Silver, narrator of Tony Parsons's first novel, Man and Boy. 'These days coming from an unbroken home is like havin ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  One for My Baby Tony Parsons 330pp, HarperCollins, £16.99 Experienced Parsons-watchers, of whom I am one, were agreeably surprised by 1999's Man and Boy. In addition to selling something like half a million copies in paperback, it was a notably good ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Synopsis:Amazon.co.uk
  New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he le ... (continue)

  Synopsis:Amazon.co.uk
  New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion.

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  have to admit that this is not as good as Man and Boy, but it's impossible for one, who has lived in both London and Hong Kong, not to like this book.

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• English Books
• Paperback 384 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0006514812
• ISBN-13: 9780006514817
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Pub date: May 07, 2002
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Deutsche Bücher

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