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The Sunny Side of the House is the latest book from author David Bailey.
You can’t choose your mum and dad, even when they choose you.
In my early teens I had a taste for horror comics. In one strip I read of a handsome young couple at last alone in their honeymoon suite. He is crisply suited, clean-cut. She, lovely in her wedding finery, offers him the chance to watch her disrobe.
The bride is not shy. She reveals herself, frame by frame, to be a hideous crone gloating at having tricked her new husband. He is unfazed, setting her to screaming as he removes his own head to stow it, grinning still, under his arm. Years later, when I thought of writing a memoir or fictionalised account of my parents’ marriage, the title I toyed with was ‘The Hag and the Head’.
The Sunny Side of the House is David Bailey’s very personal story. Its rich detail and colourful and vivid characters really tug at your heartstrings.
Even if you are unfamiliar with the location depicted throughout the novel, you can guarantee that by the end of it, you will feel like you have been there in person and not just read about it.
If you enjoy books that balance tough subjects with perfectly placed humour and make you feel many emotions as you read, then The Sunny Side of the House is one you need to read.
You can get a copy of the book here!
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