Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages

Tom Holt

Feb 2011 · Sold by Orbit

About this ebook

Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress -- the dry cleaner's.

And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on -- and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.

From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds.

Ratings and reviews

Even though the title caused me to grab this book off the shelf, the story kept me interested throughout. Like other British novelists, Holt uses adverbs and qualifiers excessively, and every narrative situation happens as if we’re all sitting at tea. Still, he had some marvelous ideas about the nature of time and space, and was able to weave them (if not a bit eccentrically) through the mysterious nature of the riddle “Which came first? Chicken or the egg?” Worth a read if you’re searching for fun and science fiction together.

Takes you on a journey and then ends with an interesting question. It may answer it or it may not.

About the author

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines; interests which led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialized in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter.