{"id":1240,"date":"2011-04-07T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:13:30","slug":"a-spot-of-bother-%e2%80%93-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"A Spot of Bother \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A review."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Author: Mark Haddon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/A Spot of Bother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757 aligncenter\" title=\"A Spot of Bother By Mark Haddon\" src=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/A Spot of Bother.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>I would think that things would be a lot easier if you were losing your marbles, However, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going all that well for George. George is older, retired and lives a proper life with his wife Jean, in England; until he discovers a mysterious lesion on his hip. Begin downward spiral.\u00c2\u00a0 Terrified it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cancer and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dying he tries to ignore it. \u00c2\u00a0Enter Katie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the daughter, she announces she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting married to Ray someone deemed wholly inappropriate for her by her parents, after all she had been through this once before with disastrous results ,except for her son, Jacob. \u00c2\u00a0Time to throw in the gay son, Jamie, \u00c2\u00a0with commitment issues and his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boyfriend\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who break up because Jamie didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to take Tony to the wedding. Sprinkle in some adultery and self-mutilation and BAM, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got yourself A Spot of Bother. If you ever though that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re family had issues you definitely should read this book. It will put your life in perspective by comparison. \u00c2\u00a0Mark Haddon weaves and incredibly funny tail of a downward spiral of a man trying to (as the book jacket says) politely go insane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cory-icon-copy-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16\" title=\"cory-icon-copy-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cory-icon-copy-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Cory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Mark Haddon I would think that things would be a lot easier if you were losing your marbles, However, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going all that well for George. George is older, retired and lives a proper life with his wife Jean, in England; until he discovers a mysterious lesion on his hip. Begin downward spiral.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underbellyofsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}