The Ha Ha

The Ha Ha

By Tom Shakespeare

Genre:-Crime Fiction/Humour/Romance/Disability Fiction

Pages:-272

Publisher:-Farrago

Blurb:-A delightfully funny and inclusive novel from Tom Shakespeare, author, academic and broadcaster

Meet Fred

 He is about to turn forty and ha invited an eclectic group of friends to celebrate at a rented stately home. He is a wheelchair user after being paralysed in a road traffic accident, has been busy at work at his memoir and is longing to reconnect with long-standing university crush, Heather, a high-flying TV foreign correspondent. What should have been a jolly weekend in the country starts getting decidedly more complicated when Heather realises that the publication of Fred's book could threaten her career ambitions.

 The Ha Ha is a thoroughly  engaging and very entertaining novel about friendship, sex, hallucinogenic drugs, marriage and putting the past behind you.  There is also a very hungry pig who may or may not have eaten Fred's stolen memoir.

 It also proves that you can write about disability without making a big fuss of disability and that you can pay tribute to the  immortal world of Blandings without ever including a PG Wodehouse character

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My Review:-Tom Shakespeare pays homage to the late PG Wodehouse with this new book 'The Ha Ha.'

Fred is the main character in the story, he is in a wheelchair because of a traffic accident that has left him paralysed. Fred has been writing his memoirs and wants to share this with his friends. Fred decides to hire a stately home for his fortieth birthday and invites his friends, especially one in particular, Heather his university crush. He never told her how he felt, but he's decided to at the stately home. Once everyone arrives Fred tells them he has been writing his memoirs and he hasn't held anything back, he's telling all. But things don't go to plan when Fred's memoirs go missing. Who has decided to take the memoirs and why?  Oh don't forget to look out for the pig. This is a great funny book that will have you laughing out loud. It was nice to see a book about someone with a disability being the main character, as I'm in a wheelchair myself and I haven't read any books like this. 5 Stars