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At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family isn't pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning the wedding has occasioned, which gets in the way of her affair with one of … mehrGeorge's former colleagues. The pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. This is Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. weniger