Em And The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto

In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers': swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be. Of how Imelda was courted by Augustine - 'Hello, Buttercup' - and of how with the passage of time and the arrival of her children she slowly turned into Em, loving and loathing a world terrified of her extravagant excesses...

Publisher:	Penguin Books
Year:	2015
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780241966518
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	Signed. Author's inscription on title page. Stain to top of text block.

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SKU: 1599666
Location: Fiction