Inconceivable
Published on 1. June 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-552-14698-2 (ISBN)
Description
Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn't that simple. Lucy thinks thinks Sam is a sad, cold sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a newspaper than have an emotion. Sam thinks Lucy is blaming him because she can't walk past Mothercare without getting all teary. The problem is that they might be infertile. And in more ways than one.
Lucy wants a baby. Sam wants to write a hit movie. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance of going into full production, Lucy's chances of getting what she wants are considerably better than Sam's.
What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable. The question is, can their love survive? Or are the odds stacked against them once again?
Lucy wants a baby. Sam wants to write a hit movie. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance of going into full production, Lucy's chances of getting what she wants are considerably better than Sam's.
What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable. The question is, can their love survive? Or are the odds stacked against them once again?
Reviews / Votes
Moving and thoroughly entertaining * Daily Express * A very funny book about a sensitive subject...Ben Elton the writer might be even funnier than Ben Elton the comic * Daily Mail * A tender, beautifully balanced romantic comedy * Spectator * Extremely funny, clever, well-written, sharp and unexpectedly moving...This brilliant, chaotic satire merits rereading several times -- Nicholas Coleridge * Mail on Sunday * This is Elton at his best - mature, humane, and still a laugh a minute. At least * Daily Telegraph * Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud * Tony Parsons * A very funny book about a sensitive subject ... Ben Elton the writer might even be funniter than Ben Elton the comic * Daily Mail *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
185 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-552-14698-2 (9780552146982)
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Person
Ben Elton's multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.
He is married and has three children.
He is married and has three children.