Ending Up – Amis, Kingsley

ISBN: 0151287961
Title: Ending Up
Author: Amis, Kingsley
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
Publication Date: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: VG

Comments: Very minor wear at bottom of first page. D-j has shelf wear.

Synopsis: At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner…