Various Pets Alive and Dead

Marina Lewycka explores the clash of the generations in one extremely colourful family in her comic novel Various Pets Alive and Dead.

For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn''t. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter Clara wants nothing less conf...