Mr Toppit

Charles Elton

RRP: £7.99

Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP

Publication Date : 30/04/2009

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A much talked-about debut novel with strong reviews, which captures a family and a society to funny and painful effect, in the tradition of Jonathan Coe's "What A Carve Up!". Spanning several decades from the heyday of the British film industry after the war to the cut-throat world of LA show business, it is the riveting tale of the unexpected effects of sudden fame and fortune.

Publisher's description:

When the author of The Hayseed Chronicles, Arthur Hayman, is mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, his legacy passes to his widow, Martha, and her children - the fragile Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly immortalised as Luke Hayseed, the central character of his father's books. But others want their share, particularly Laurie.

ISBN: 9780141038001