Live web-chat with Tony Parsons, 9pm-10pm, 6 October

[rachel(mumsnet)]

Columnist and author Tony Parsons will be joining us here on Monday 6th October from 9-10pm for a live chat. Tony's sixth novel, 'My Favourite Wife' has just been published and is described by The Independent as 'a much bigger, more ambitious book' than million-selling 'Man and Boy'. If you can't make the chat you can post your questions in advance here.
Hope to see you here on Monday.

I'm sorry to admit I'm not really sure who Tony Hawkes is , but if there's consensus we'll try. And we'll also try for Nick Hornby too.

oh, I missed this. Ah well.

Anyway Tone, nice dodge on the misogyny thing mate.

OK,I guess you're right! Fair enough.
It's OK to slag someone off when they've gone though isn't it?
Still, I'm right though aren't I?! He is a twunt.
What's the other rule?

Tony Hawkes, round Ireland with a fridge Tony Hawkes? He of insurance commercials?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Me first please.

shall we discuss a fee Justine?

yeah justine !!
we love you!!

he wrote this recently its only just come out here

I thought of another one...

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actually he is very witty, and talks alot of sense about happiness ambition and how we measure it.
and doing what makes you happy in life.

by the way that last post was about tony hawkes NOT parsons

I'm not sure that BIGwads and I exactly make for a consensus. I wonder if there are any female comedians who would do a webchat. I would love to talk to Victoria Wood for instance, or Dawn French (she had to lose weight to be allowed to adopt too, so I feel a bond).

Ooh yes, Dawn French would be fab (much better than Chesney Hawkes). Victoria Wood would be good too, so long as she promised not to sing.

Oh, and BIGwads reference to ambition, happiness etc has made me think about Alain de Boton. He would be fantastic to chat to, he just sees things so differently and clearly, as though he's not actually living a life just watching everyone else live theirs.

yes we do

Bugger. I wanted to say (without brownnosing obv) that I quite enjoyed My Favourite Wife, except that had a coupla reservations. I thought the flood denouement lacked veracity and was a bit Rambo. I thought you (the author) abandoned her (the mistress), as much as the character later did. Unfortunately, since the wife had been abandoned as a character early on (IMHO), this was a difficult polarity to reconcile.

But the conflicts over love and commitment which shifted through the affair were lightly and subtly rendered. I liked the tension evoked by the child's asthma. The Shanghai-ness of it was thrilling, successfully written.

I shall read it again. It is the first of your books that has made me want to (that isn't meant to be an insult: I have read them all and think this is the best written and most complex).

But you should still retract your comments about fat birds.

I suppose Sarah Palin is a bit busy atm for a live chat on MN. I can think of all sorts of things I'd like to ask her.

omg will you STOP talking about fecking cheseney hawkes!

no one wants him on here !

Well, I thought Minky was rather fab even if she did get personal. Takes a certain bravery to call the real tony a twunt to his online face, imo. And more importantly, bran is absolutely right that her more serious point was valid as a valid thing too.

And thanks, soren for your earlier support. Am very touched that Tony will never get your custom because of his post to me!

You're welcome, Scummy. That's two authors I've blacklisted because of MN (shan't mention the other one, she's litigious )

Have we ever had Will Self? Really, I'm asking.

Yeah, let's get Will Self on. If only to keep OBM off me with her grubby hands and slobbery kisses.

You mean the Real Will Self ? (Assuming the one who posts regularly is not he).

well- it's not really to his face, is it?
As fab as the name MinkyBorage is, I don't think it's her real name, now is it?

Wilfy glad to see you are still you matey.

no, I am the Real WILF SELL.

For the last time.

I am NOT a tall, dark, brooding author with a penchant for interesting substances and surreal plotlines involving coprophilia.

I would be MUCH more interesting if I were.