Better Than Life

By Margaret Gunning

A heart-warming and humorous novel about living life to the fullest and the joy and frustration of human relationships. The novel celebrates all the blessings and bruisings of blood ties, and explores... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896300693
• ISBN13: 9781896300696
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Quirky story about family and small town life

Better Than Life is a great read for anyone who has a family that's less than perfect. The Connar family is both hilarious and realistic as it prepares for Min's 90th birthday party. Aubrey, the son living at home with Min, has to contend with her excentricities and tendency to 'die' every once in a while. The small town they live in is filled with characters and secrets and stories that will engage the reader as the story progresses to the big birthday party. Jurgen Gothe sums it up very well on the back cover:"What could be better than this? The finer points of Belgian doughnuts, fried chicken wars, papier-maché squirrels; small town intrigue, outrage and inter-municipal plottery; great convoluted characters and relationships, not a little looniness and quite a lot of real pain. Part colour cartoon, part small town soap opera, part neurosis case book. Sum total: big time winner."