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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409020776
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Things Can Only Get Better




The hilarious account of eighteen miserable years in the life of a Labour supporter.

Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British people to f*** off at the same time. It was something we would have to get used to.'

Things Can Only Get Better is the personal account of a Labour supporter who survived eighteen miserable years of Conservative government. It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons; standing as a council candidate; and eventually writing jokes for a shadow cabinet minister.

Along the way he slowly came to realise that Michael Foot would never be Prime Minister, that vegetable quiche was not as tasty as chicken tikki masala and that the nuclear arms race was never going to be stopped by face painting alone.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409020776
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell's first book Things Can Only Get Better about his years spent helping the Labour Party lose elections at every level was a number one best-seller. Two decades later he published the sequel Things Can Only Get Worse. In between his two comic memoirs, he published five novels, including The Best A Man Can Get, May Contain Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife; two funny history books (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and its sequel) plus three collections of his satirical columns from The Guardian. His books have been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for TV and radio. Formerly a comedy scriptwriter for shows such as Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, he more recently co-wrote the movie Chicken Run 2 and two Broadway musicals; Something Rotten! and Mrs Doubtfire.

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Praise for Things Can Only Get Better

'The funniest book I have read for two and a half years'

Arthur Smith

'The whingeing memoirs of a snivelling leftie. The man should be shot'

Jack Dee

'Very funny'

Mail on Sunday

'Excellent...Whatever your politics Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud'

Angus Deayton

'Very funny'

The Times

'Very funny and much better than anything he ever wrote for me'

Griff Rhys Jones

'Very funny'

The Mirror