I absolutely adore reading K L Smith. The series is absolutely HILARIOUS and I have narrated two titles to date with another two on the way! Fast-paced, deliciously funny and relatable characters and situations.... but these characters get to say and do what we all wanted to! (After a fashion!) Smiths "Comedy Series" is defo a perfect read for your holidays!
An Unlikely Funeral:
The newsreader took a breath and began: –
“And here we have the remarkable tale of local man George Pimpton who sadly died last week at the grand old age of 96. It’s only since his passing that locals have realised they had a reclusive celebrity in their midst. His story has captured the attention of the nation, and people are fascinated that such a man had been quietly living down an unassuming terraced street, keeping himself to himself. All week people have been coming out in droves to lay flowers outside of his house, and to give donations to his favourite charity – Guide Dogs For The Blind.”
The only problem was, this was all an accidental lie. George Pimpton was no celebrity. He’d never done anything remotely interesting with his life and had spent the last thirty years of his unremarkable existence laid in bed watching daytime Tv and picking at his bellybutton fluff.
Upon his death, his well intentioned – though often misguided – neighbours simply wanted to jazz up his obituary to make his life sound a little more interesting, a well meant gesture that quickly got drastically out of hand due to the perils of social media. After Paul McCartney mistakes George for someone else and sends a farewell tweet to his “old friend” this celebrity endorsement sets off a chain reaction that cant be reigned back in. It also didn’t take long for other celebrities to start coming out of the woodwork with half-remembered stories about George. After all, anyone who was anyone, had a story to tell about old George… and now the world was watching, and waiting to hear just what would be in that eulogy…
Flight of the Cuckoo:
This is the dark but humorous tale of Sarah Pemberton, who is not a happy woman.
A down to earth, inventive soul who despises her stuck up pompous husband Neil, who believes he is much more intelligent and important than she is. When he refuses her a divorce and emotionally blackmails her into staying with him by threatening to take custody of their daughter, she's decides to make life a little more entertaining for herself - by subtly torturing him at every available opportunity.
Creative and adaptable by nature, with a wicked sense of humour, she comes up with more and more ways to ridicule him, without him ever knowing she has a hand in it.
...."During 1993-1994 amongst other things, I cooked him a meat pie with pedigree chum, stole his car more times than I can count, put chilli powder in his underpants, sent a stripagram to his work (a fat one), and subscribed him to a gay porn mag! (Our paperboy avoided him like the plague after that.)".....
Finding accomplices in the form of her aunt May, who lives in a crumbling old former hotel - which was damaged during WWII, and May's two lodgers, a shy young hippy named Darren, along with his brother Matthew a former life model, they try to get rid of her husband by either 'Plan A' - which consists of 'frame him for a crime so that he gets incarcerated', or 'Plan B '- drive him to a nervous breakdown. Both plans are designed to discredit Neil in case of a custody battle for their daughter.
There is only one little prerequisite for every little torturous idea though, and that is...IT HAS TO MAKE THEM LAUGH!
Unbeknown to Sarah at first, she isn't the only one with a vendetta
against her husband, his entire workforce hate his guts and exploit any
opportunity to make him look bad.
When plans A & B go disastrously wrong, Sarah and co set their sights on a new target, her in-laws.
Interwoven throughout the story is the tale of aunt May, the lynch pin
of her little make-shift family, who harbours secrets of her own that go
back to the night the bomb fell on the east wing of the hotel.
This is not a tale of a submissive woman suffering at the hands of
abuse; this is the tale of a strong courageous woman having one last
laugh at other people's expense.
Contains very occasional strong language, and scenes that should not be repeated at home.
Volume One of 'The Cuckoo' series
Contact
If you are an audiobook reviewer and would like a promo code for either audiobook , please email me or DM me via Instagram
Links
No comments:
Post a Comment