Wild Oats
()
About this ebook
The Waterfords and the Oxfords are two fairly ordinary families, with one significant exception: they are the inventions of a depressed writer who now seems unable to control them: ‘I’m quite happy to rattle off their name, their shoe size, the colour of their hair, and let genius and instinct take it from there.’ Little does he suspect where this laissez-faire policy will lead him.
Colleagues Martin Oxford and Josh Waterford have the bright idea to take their families on a break together to a remote farm in Devon. As they and the bewildered narrator soon discover, the Oxfords’ idea of a gratifying leisure pursuit differs – mortifyingly – from the more staid Waterfords’. Even the children are fed up. Only the Oxfords’ excitable Labrador Brewster is really having any fun, amusing himself by harassing Sammy, the decrepit but wise farmyard cat. Meanwhile, Sammy’s owners have problems of their own. Mr Broadfield (‘"Farmer Giles" would be a bit too obvious’) is facing bankruptcy; his son wants to abandon the family business and move away - to London, of all places; even Mrs Broadfield is thinking about escaping. But as relations amongst the three families reach a crescendo of embarrassment, resentment and mutual distaste, a certain cat and dog seem to have established their own sort of peace.
Wild Oats is a brilliantly assured novel of sexual politics, social mores, and the changing countryside. A riveting, worldly and memorably original work of fiction, it is also riotously funny.
Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards was born in Brixton and left school at fifteen to become a cabinet maker’s apprentice. He has worked in the City, as a flour factor and cereals importer, a director of a food packing company, and as a legal archivist. He lives in Bournemouth with his wife Ann.
Read more from Michael Edwards
Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wolfskin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFather Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGravity -True For You But Not For Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Guilty Conscience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnother Art of Poetry and Doorstones Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUntimely Christianity: Hearing the Bible in a Secular Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExcuse Line: 101 Excuses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journey of Many Lifetimes Part One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSword of Three Kingdoms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Peaceful Ride Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalhouse Ch 5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScarlet Tie Episode 1 Book 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRealization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTight Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMagic City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Always Right, Until Along Came a Woman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dragon That Ate the Sun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRahib Chronicles of Islandor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDear Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShow Me The Meaning...Of Love, Loss, and Regret Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Meta Summoner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScratch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Key-Master and Tyke the Teen of Tomorrow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Wild Oats
Related ebooks
A Shot in the Dark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharge that to the Game Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStylish Transient: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadow Fire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsthirteen, fourteen, fifteen o'clock Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren in Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journals of Kara and Jason Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Windwhistle Bone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsViral: Sixteen Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI, Vagina: An Insider's View of Sex & Orgasm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf That's Your Real Name Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTipping Points Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFree Falling Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwenty Three Fragments of My Year Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrother Dumb Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sara's Face Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Skateboy: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSardoodledom: Eternal Finale Volume Three: SARDOODLEDOM, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSardoodledom: Part Two Darkened Promise Fury's Truth: SARDOODLEDOM, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beginning Professional Storyteller: Business for Breakfast, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Furry Tongue Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Confessions of a Professional Psychopath: Action Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf You Could Read My Mind, Love: The Ghost that Is Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Journey Home: The Hearts of Men Book 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beginning of the End: Zombie Zero: The Short Stories, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUniversally Yours, The Phoenix Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSound Bites Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDevil's Choice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Smoking Gun Sisterhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Fiction For You
The Handmaid's Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little Birds: Erotica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5East of Eden (Original Classic Edition) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Is the Flesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Queen's Gambit Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Confederacy of Dunces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pride and Prejudice: Bestsellers and famous Books Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salvage the Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Wild Oats
0 ratings0 reviews