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The Last Ealing Comedy

Published
Feb 2003
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General Fiction General Fiction
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320

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It's time for Alastair Strange to move on, Martha's left him in the lurch and discovered more to life than the TV and late night pizzas, and things at TV Forum magazine just aren't all they were cracked up to be...But, when you've got friends like Tara, and her rich husband, anything is possible, even teaching, just as long as you get the right reference. Alastair lands a job as a teacher at an Ealing boys' school and is set the task of enlightening teenage boys to the wonders of media and film; it doesn't seem like too tough a challenge but the 'ferals' in 4L shouldn't be underestimated. On the school grounds are the derelict Ealing Studios; the themes, as with the soap operas in Stranger Than Fulham, enhance Baylis's comic novel, combining the wit and fun of the films with the catastrophes of modern urban life. Living with the gregarious Davenport, dealing with mysterious girls on the bus and disastrous blind dates, it would seem that there is, perhaps, one last comedy left in Ealing.

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First Edition Feb 2003 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780701168582 ISBN10 0701168587
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May 2004 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099273554 ISBN10 0099273551
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Jun 2011 -- Not Selected ISBN10 B0052Z3HQM
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Jun 2011 Vintage ISBN13 9781446484630 ISBN10 1446484637
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