Our Doris edition by Charles Heathcote Literature Fiction eBooks
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The Partridge Mews Women's Institute have announced a Garden Safari and Doris Copeland, pillar of the community with a tenure as Maria in The Sound of Music that involved an awful gastrointestinal bug, plans on securing her position as fifth house.
Join her as she battles ne'er do well slugs, searches for the perfect artisan sausage and comes against her mortal enemy Janice Dooley of Little Street, all whilst maintaining a perfectly Silvakrinned hairstyle.
Told from the perspective of her long-suffering husband, 'arold, a man who would be content to sit at home watching re-runs of Groundforce.
This is the first book of monologues featuring Our Doris.
Our Doris edition by Charles Heathcote Literature Fiction eBooks
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Our Doris edition by Charles Heathcote Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This was delivered in good time. Such good value. The book is separated into monologues. So reminded of me how my mother used to speak to my father. Really funny and entertaining. Never a dull moment with Doris and arold. X definitely recommend this one for the train or plane. Handy size for bag.Nice cuppa and morning coffee!
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Our Doris should come with a warning to avoid food and drink while reading, because if you ‘get it’, this book is sprinkled with moments that might literally choke you with laughter.
Written as a series of monologues, it introduces Our Doris, a character somewhat reminiscent of Hyacinth Bucket of the British sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances, perhaps a distant cousin. Our Doris is spawned with the same devilishly-haughty mix of faux-superiority and the assumption of perfect manners, a blend which transforms an ordinary high maintenance woman into walking purgatory. The tale is told in the voice of Doris’ husband, Our Harold, a paragon of forbearance not without his own quirks. The elderly pair have been married for more than fifty years, and in a different reality, you might picture Harold as being perfectly justified in calmly and honestly stating, “And that Your Honor, is why I killed her.”
Our Doris is obsessed with her garden and its upcoming placement in the local garden safari, a neighborhood affair more important than national defense. Doris will go to any lengths to showcase herself as a “horticulturist visionary” and end up the winner. Naturally, she views her competition, the members of the local ladies group, as wholly unworthy of comparison with her skills, and she’s not shy about jockeying her way through the minefield of British propriety with insults and blackmail to maintain her advantage. Throughout, the saintly-patient Our Harold grudgingly assists, deftly avoids, or unashamedly warns the local lads about Doris’ manic and maniacal plans. And of course, lifelong marriage has also shown him the definitive advantages of escape through heavy drinking.
The Good The authentic feel of this slice of British life is truly marvelous, and the laughs are genuine and liberally supplied.
The Bad There is no correct answer when an author attempts to balance authenticity against readability for a broad audience. Our Doris is likely a fast and wonderfully easy read in Great Britain, but ‘across the pond,’ it may take a bit of googling to understand the British slang, colloquialisms, etc. that have no common reference. Naturally, some of the humor is dependent on such understanding; for example, one reference to Ben Nevis, which is a mountain, not a person. Ergo, this is not an effortless read for the author’s American cousins, but even with this caveat on readability, if you love British humor as I do, Our Doris is ‘simply lovely.’
Rating Four Stars, and I almost feel guilty deducting one for readability.
Ten gems of wit, insight and Matrimonial Survival present “Our Doris” to the world.
Heathcoate reaches back into distant BBC radio comedies, elderly sitcoms and literary characters who are neither politically correct nor apologetic. Indeed, his experience in writing radio plays explains not only the former, but gives Our Doris and her Family, Friends and Feuders a crisp dialogue that builds on the situational hilarity.
And hilarity is the operative term here – seldom have I actually laughed out loud at a book, but Heathcote has a wonderful eye for the absurdity of the mundane, while maintaining a warm and ultimately loveable cast headed by the inimitable Our Doris.
While Our Doris will be temperate to the UK market, the universal humour will appeal to anyone who can communicate in the mother tongue. For the colonies and the US, it is well worth taking a few minutes to acclimatise as the comedy, humour and tightly crafted dialogue make this a wonderful read.
Our Doris will instil the warmth and comfort of an era not-quite-passed-by.
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