Quiet Life
''The underrated A Quiet Life is one of the funniest books I have ever read'' HILARY MANTEL
''One of the best novelists of her generation'' GUARDIAN
Seventeen-year-old Alan can''t stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the ha...
''The underrated A Quiet Life is one of the funniest books I have ever read'' HILARY MANTEL
''One of the best novelists of her generation'' GUARDIAN
Seventeen-year-old Alan can''t stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the ha...
