One for My Baby

Name: One for My Baby
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Tony Parsons
ISBN: 9781461811794

Author: Tony Parsons

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/09/2011

Categories: Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

After Alfie Budd's beloved wife dies, he returns to England to find his parents feuding and his grandmother's health failing. Alfie's ambitions to be a writer are fading as well. But when he begins tutoring a young single mother for her A level exams, his bewildering life is suddenly transformed. A widely published journalist and the best-selling author of Man and Boy, Tony Parsons also regularly appears on BBC television.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gina

I wonder how much Tony Parsons bases his characters on himself--his books always seem very personal. This one is sweet without being saccharine, and still engaging and very fun. The characters are all very much present and well-formed--even the secondary ones. I liked Alfie although I couldn't get wo......more

Goodreads review by John

One for my baby This just elbows out 'Man and Boy' for me. Here Parson's asks, does anyone really get a second shot at finding love? Shamelessly sentimental, which would be a knock if it didn't work so effectively, Parsons not so much pulls at your heart strings as feeds 'em into a diabolical loom of h......more