Who's Sorry Now?

From the author of The Mighty Walzer , winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Award, for comic writing.

Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for women. At present he loves four – his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters – and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, his wife of twenty years. Once a week the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch in Soho, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have. Until today, that is. What follows shows Howard Jacobson in majestic form – unnervingly truthful, poignant, and very, very funny.