Description
Hotel Avocado is the hilarious and gripping new novel by bestselling author Bob Mortimer - a rollicking ride you won't want to put down.
Meet Gary Thorn, caught between a rock and a very comfortable pie. Stay in London with his cosy legal gig in Peckham, regular pie sessions with neighbour Grace and her dog Lassoo, or make the leap to Brighton to support girlfriend Emily's exciting new venture, The Hotel Avocado? Spoiler alert: either choice means someone's getting the short end of the stick.
Then things get properly weird. Sinister forces start swirling in clouds of launderette-scented vape smoke, and a mysterious bloke called Mr Sequence shows up to make Gary's life infinitely more complicated.
Suddenly, staying alive becomes just as important as staying happy, and possibly more urgent.
Mortimer's trademark storytelling is in full effect here, packed with his signature verbal specificity and wonderfully wonky humour. Every character is bursting with carefully observed detail and laugh-out-loud moments.
This is the kind of book that'll have you chuckling on the bus, grinning at your desk, and generally wondering how Mortimer comes up with this stuff.
'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian.
Paperback 416 pages.
Approx: 13.1 x 19.8 cm.