Book description
Bleak Expectations' recounts the remarkable adventures of young
Pip Bin as he tries to repair his destroyed family and distinctly
damaged life, aided by his best friend Harry Biscuit and definitely
not aided by his cruel and ironically named guardian Mr Gently
Benevolent and his accomplices, the fearsome Hardthrasher siblings.
Grim circumstances, mistaken identities, unlikely
inheritances,nightmarish court cases, ridiculous names, convenient
coincidences to resolve plot problems, over-sentimental death scenes
and lots and lots of adjectives: 'Bleak Expectations' is the novel
Charles Dickens might have written after drinking far too much gin.
Praise for the Radio 4 series: 'Mark Evans writes one of the
wittiest, most ingenious scripts on the air, a Dickensian pastiche
with a slight Rocky Horror Show echo.' Daily Telegraph.
'A freshly minted comedy classic.' Guardian. '...inspired
lunacy.' The Times
Mark Evans has written really quite often for television and radio,
including five series of Radio 4's Bleak Expectations, BBC2's The Bleak
Old Shop Of Stuff and That Mitchell and Webb Look. He is also the author
of this book, the one you're holding or looking at now. He lives in
North London with one wife, no dog and enough children, thank you, and
can be bribed quite easily to do most things involving words.
