House Mother Normal

House Mother NormalAn hilarious and deep feeling portrayal of what it means to live and what it means to grow old. With an introduction by poet Andrew Motion. Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of the evening from their own, individual perspective. By virtue of the novel's clever structure, the reader's comprehension of events is limited so as to allow them

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