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Getting It Right

Elizabeth Jane Howard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:10th Sep '15

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From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Getting It Right delves deep in to the life of a shy thirty-one-year-old man finally coming of age.

Thirty-one years old and profoundly shy, hairdresser Gavin finally comes of age in Getting It Right, a witty and heartfelt novel from the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award.

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Getting It Right is a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to come of age.

Gavin – a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End – is, at thirty-one, still a virgin. He's a classic late developer, and he's worried that it's getting too late to develop at all.

Then, one night, Gavin finds himself at a penthouse party. There, he meets new people – the likes of which he's never come across before. Suddenly, everything begins to change. Over the next fortnight, Gavin might start, at last, to 'get it right' . . .

'Sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right' – Evening Standard

Crammed with incidental pleasures . . . sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right. -- Paul Bailey * Evening Standard *
Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her -- Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

ISBN: 9781447272380

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm

Weight: 472g

384 pages