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Getting It Right

Synopsis

Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award.

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Getting It Right is a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to come of age.

Gavin – a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End – is, at thirty-one, still a virgin. He's a classic late developer, and he's worried that it's getting too late to develop at all.

Then, one night, Gavin finds himself at a penthouse party. There, he meets new people – the likes of which he's never come across before. Suddenly, everything begins to change. Over the next fortnight, Gavin might start, at last, to 'get it right' . . .

'Sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right' – Evening Standard

Details

28 June 2012
384 pages
9781447211624
Imprint: Pan

Reviews

Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take herHilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Crammed with incidental pleasures . . . sometimes sad but more frequently hilarious . . . Getting It Right gets it, comically, right.Paul Bailey, Evening Standard