Mad About The Boy

Oct 17, 2024 11:28 PM

Author:Maggie Alderson

Mad About The Boy

'Some of my best friends are homosexuals. I just didn't expect my husband to be one too.'

A year after Antonia and Hugh move to Australia with their 4 year old son Tom, everything is going terribly well. They have a lovely house, they're very popular - and then Hugh tells Antonia he is gay and has a boyfriend ...

It's only the arrival of Ant's outrageous lavender-haired uncle Percy that lifts her out of her depression and sends her off to the gym - to combat the lardy thighs her comfort eating has given her - where she meets the mysterious James, and falls head over heels in lust.

Soon Ant finds she's over Hugo - but by then her problems are only just beginning ...

Reviews

With Atomised, you could see that Houellebecq was headed for greatness. With Platform he has attained it. The book is a stunning achievement

—— Evening Standard

Reading Houellebecq is never deflating; it is, rather, a source of constant inspiration and delight. Would that we could produce his like in England

—— Observer

A brilliant novel

—— Anita Brookner

Michel Houellebecq has put contemporary French literature back on the map in a way not seen since Camus

—— David Sexton , Evening Standard

There is something new and rare here, a genuinely unsettling wit with a terrible tang of truth

—— Sunday Telegraph

Here is a fine Iliad for our times, to be read with great pleasure

—— Philip Howard , The Times

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