A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

[biblio__]

"Neither of them had the energy to argue and they spent the next few days playing the role of dutiful parents so as to not trouble Jacob. And she could see them turning slowly in the the people they were pretending to be, the problem they were meant to solve drifting slowly into the background, the two of them turning in to team whose job it was to

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[cookiethief]

The Lovely Bones also, apparently, is laugh-out-loud funny. I haven't read it, but whenever I'm around someone who is, they can't contain themselves.

[biblio__]

Someone told me that it was a really serious, dramatic book. I'll definitely gave to check it out and see which it is :)

[leahsherbert]

It's a pretty serious, dramatic book, at least I think so. I can't imagine anything in it really being that funny, unless one has a very demented sense of humor.