**Named one of 2019's most anticipated reads by LitHub and *Entertainment Weekly*** **From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summe
Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe
✍ Scribed by Evan James
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Named one of 2019's most anticipated reads by LitHub and Entertainment Weekly
From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric family and the absurd happenings that befall them during one frenzied summer at their home in the Pacific Northwest.
The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home—Willowbrook Manor on the Puget Sound—is just the thing to cheer her husband up. And so begins a whirlwind summer as their house becomes the epicenter of multiple social dramas involving the family, their friends, and a host of new acquaintances.
The Widdicombes' son, Christopher, is mourning a heartbreak after a year abroad in Italy. Their personal assistant, Michelle, begins a romance with preppy screenwriter...
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