The Fowler Family Business

The Fowler Family Business by Jonathan Meades


ISBN
9781857028485
Published
Released
01 / 04 / 2002
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

An inventively nasty, gruesomely comic paean to the sylvan heights of Forest Hill and Upper Norwood, a warped map of the death trade's quotidian strangeness.

Henry Fowler was twice, long ago, runner-up in the Oil Fuels Guild-sponsored Young Funeral Director of the Year competition. His intense loyalties are to his parents, to his wife and children, to the family firm and the trade it practises, to his native south-east London and to his best friend Curly, traffic wonk and surviving brother of his former best friend who fell to his death at Norwood Junction.

Well into middle age, and Henry's life is running smoothly as he always hoped it would. But then: his wife's tennis partner, a celebrity florist and BBC2 star, is accidentally beheaded by his electric hedgecutter while crimping a three metre high topiary poodle; Curly, newly married and eager for a child, is diagnosed as suffering "waterworks problems"; and Henry, suddenly doubtful of his wife's fidelity, cuts a lock of his sleeping daughter's hair.

The foundations of a world, a family and an identity begin to rock.
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