Book description
A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end
of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves
unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers
wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa's Grotto; a widow
recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating and a father
realises that his son is growing away from him as he helps him tie his
football boots.
In these snippets of overheard conversations from across the length and
breadth of the country, Craig Taylor captures the state we're in with
humour and pathos and perfect timing. Laugh-out-loud funny, and
sometimes heartbreakingly moving, these tiny plays in which every one of
us could have a starring role are little windows into other people's
lives that reveal the triumphs, disasters, prejudices, horrors and joys
of twenty-first-century life.
Hugely entertaining and utterly addictive, this is book that can be
dipped into or feasted upon in one sitting. It will change the way you
listen to the world around you, and train journeys will never be the
same again. Craig Taylor's non-fiction has appeared in the
Guardian
, the New York Times
and
the Globe and Mail
. His fiction has appeared in the
Mississippi Review
. He wrote One Million
Tiny Plays About Britain
for the Guardian
's
Weekend magazine for several years.
Craig publishes
Hamish Hamilton's Five Dials
magazine as well as his
own photocopied magazines, including The Review of Everything
I've Ever Encountered
and Dark Tales of
Clapham
. His first book, Return To
Akenfield
, was published by Granta in 2006, and the play of
the novel toured the UK in 2009.
