What we Did on our Holiday
John Harding
The blurb describes this as "the only book in the English language that
begins with the word toilet". An estate agent and his wife take the
his father and mother on holiday to Malta. The father has
Parkinson's Disease and suffers from slurred speech, mobility problems
and incontinence - in spite of his speech problems he manages to say the
word "toilet" clearly as it's so important. There is a lot of humour in the book and it tackles disability in a very straightforward way. The
ending is not entirely credible but the rest of the book is very real.
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