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Ok part 2 guess the book! Or play? Or song?

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Seasawride · 20/07/2018 14:29

But only fair you say which it is at the beginning Smile

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MissLingoss · 20/07/2018 23:50

Lancelottie - Yes. One of my favourites!

Tanith · 21/07/2018 00:09

Here's a nice, easy one: book and tv series:

Ever had one of those days where everything you touch goes disastrously wrong?
I'm a post-grad in a famous college. It's actually more famous for its cuisine than its research, but never mind.
I've got myself into a really embarrassing situation by falling in love with the housekeeper. She doesn't know - well, she didn't until I confessed to the chaplain and, as he's a bit deaf and I had to be a bit loud, now the whole bloody college knows! I'm so ashamed!

So I tried to find someone nearer my own age and, hoping for something I have never had before, I got myself some condoms - never mind how. More than I needed.
Lots more than I needed.
I suppose I panicked then, but I just had to get rid of them and the only thing I could think of doing was blowing them up with gas and stuffing them up the chimney.

Only they floated out of the chimney and all over the college grounds and the Head Porter has been frantically popping the things all night in case anyone notices them - he wishes! I should think the entire college has seen them! I hope to God he never finds out it was me!

It's like a nightmare! How much worse can things possibly get?

arranfan · 21/07/2018 00:13

Tanith

Porterhouse Blue?

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 01:00

Stark not sure if anyone got this one from the first page on the thread “My sister in laws sister is very upset with me just because I danced with someone at a society ball

He would never have proposed to her anyway. And now I hear she's had a near breakdown over the embarrassment and gone to Europe to soothe her nerves

I find it all very dramatic.”

Is this Anna Karenina?

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 01:13

Book, play

My father is a murderer and I don’t want to see him ever again. I’ve had lots of adventures while writing my murder mystery novel but it looks like I’ll have to go on another one to find my mother, who until recently I thought was dead.

5LeafClover · 21/07/2018 02:20

Play, film

I hated my father...but I cant believe he's dead now. He drank and beat me up regularly, just for fun. I'm no angel myself, (it's hard to get a job when you're face don't fit) but I'm not a killer. I kind of wish I had stabbed him now...because I reckon I'm going to be found guilty anyway.

neitherfleshnorfowl · 21/07/2018 05:27

@MrStark: I see that people have said your first book is "Her." Is that the memoir by Christa Parravani? That's the only book I can find with the title of just "Her" but the description sounds different. Fantastic Fiction doesn't bring up any titles.

If not, can you help, please?

Your summary interested me.Thanks.

Lancelottie · 21/07/2018 08:37

No, it's Harriet Lane, fairly recent fiction (I think!).

drudgewithagrudge · 21/07/2018 09:04

KatherineHilbery you've got it!

Soomanybooks · 21/07/2018 10:29

@questionzzz

Penmarric. I love Susan Howarth.

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 21/07/2018 11:16

Yes Anna Karenina and Yes to Her by Harriet Lane

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 12:01

DH and I have 3 children. DS1 and DD seem fine but I’m worried about DS2. I can’t really feel as much of a connection to him as my third child. I am proud of him but also he reminds me of what this society has become. He’s gone off to a kind of boarding school and doesn’t want to see any of the family except DD. Also he killed 2 people by the age of 10. AIBU to worry about this?

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 12:02

That last one is a book and film but specifically based on the book.

Tanith · 21/07/2018 13:46

Arranfan Yes, Porterhouse Blue it is Smile

Tanith · 21/07/2018 13:52

Perhaps I should give the name of the author of my previous book as the third clue.
He's Frederick Forsyth, author of Day of the Jackal. This book, and film, is less well known.

MissLingoss · 21/07/2018 14:20

Book

We promised our dd riding lessons if she did well in her school exams this term. She did quite poorly, due to sheer carelessness - she didn't read the instructions at the head of the paper. Apparently most of her form fell into the same trap, despite having been told to do so by their form mistress. (Who terrifies me, so how so many of the girls managed not to pay attention to what she said is beyond me.)

It might not have mattered so much, but dd says there's a scholarship to be awarded at the end of this term, and no-one is sure to what extent the atypical exam results will influence the decision.

ScreamingValenta · 21/07/2018 14:31

That's the Cricket Term and you are Mrs Wateridge, mother of Barbara, who like most of her form, fell into the 'trap for heffalumps'.

glamorousgrandmother · 21/07/2018 14:45

I'm still checking in but haven't guessed any for ages Sad. Also struggling for my own ideas now, I'll be back.

Tanith · 21/07/2018 14:49

Ah! Just too late to guess The Cricket Term!

Am I the only one that warns their kids to read the exam instructions, using Lower IVA’s example?

Tanith · 21/07/2018 15:01

Book and film:

I’ve struggled on my own as a widow with 4 children since my husband was killed last year.
We manage, although it’s quite hard, but we have some good neighbours and we all look out for each other. Well, all except a standoffish family that lives near the farm house. I don’t say they’re unpleasant, but they keep themselves to themselves and we don’t bother them either.

Our doctor is outstanding and I can always go to him when we need him: he was a good friend of my husband’s and takes especial care of us since the accident. Really, I don’t know where he gets his knowledge from: he’s an absolute genius for knowing just which cures will work.

I came home yesterday to find my youngest ill. He’s always been a bit sickly, ever since he had a near-death experience as a baby - thank God, the doctor knew what to do then and saved him.
This time, though, he’s getting worse and worse. I’m so afraid he’ll have to stay in bed, and we just can’t do it: we’re coming up to Moving Day and he’s just got to be well for that! We certainly can’t stay here, but we can’t possibly leave him behind!

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 15:10

@Tanith Secret of NIMH?

kikisparks · 21/07/2018 15:14

Mine are both technically children’s/ young adult books I think though many will probably have read them as adults.

MissLingoss · 21/07/2018 15:14

Yes, Cricket Term, of course. Should be required reading for all students approaching GCSE. I remember my teachers dinning it into us before exams, year after year, as we moved up the school.

ScreamingValenta · 21/07/2018 15:59

I was always amazed Miranda had missed the instructions.

Tanith · 21/07/2018 16:12

Secret of NIHM, yes! Smile I loved Justin and was heartbroken that we never discovered if he’d got out in time - all the hints were that he didn’t Sad

I don’t know, Valenta, Miranda always seemed so sure of herself: if anyone deserved the tag of “overconfident”, it was her. I could quite well imagine her thinking that the instructions were for lesser mortals and any fool knew how to do an exam.