A review by emmalawn
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A re-reading of this book. I believe I enjoyed it more the first time I read it, years ago.
This book seems part soap opera, part gentle sit-com and above all - very very British. With mundane scenarios and emotionally stunted family members struggling to communicate with one another properly, all wrapped around George's health anxiety that he may have cancer, though this is more about his need for attention or something interesting to happen in his life. 
Overall this book is quite mundane but there are moments to make you smile and little glimmers of hope amongst the quiet judgement, narcissistic tendencies, selfish behaviour and repressed emotions of this dysfunctional family.