Tom Bedlam

"* 'A fine novel, about family, migration, identity and the struggle to find and hold onto it. It is also hugely entertaining and very, very funny.' - Roddy Doyle on THE LAMENTS * 'Extremely funny' - Daily Mail on THE LAMENTS * 'The family story has been a durable mainstay of the novel for more than a century... THE LAMENTS is a lively corrective to the subgenre, a family story on speed, with a jolt of black comedy that makes it a close relative to that greatest of all American family stories, The Simpsons... any apparent invitation to either characters or readers to fall into a sentimental slump is quickly withdrawn. The" Ler mais...