The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

The Satsuma Complex by Bob MortimerTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Funny, clever and sweet'; Sunday Times'The much loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apart' ; Observer'Like Spike Milligan, Mortimer has managed to use a novel for his distinctive comedic voice' ; The Telegraph 'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'You'll love it' IndependentMy name is Gary. I'm a thirty year old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as

trucks and animals to fill the busy scenes

There's no predicting it

the fulfilment of being a mother

a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia

Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies

he gives the reader just one instruction: "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus

They took some damper and tea in a hamper and bundled it up in the boot

no matter how curious it might seem

leaving her strict white Catholic parents aghast - why dig up the past

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture

From mysterious corpses in the desert to huge heists

Fred meets a bunch of people who think they know what's best for her