All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
- All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye
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name = All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
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author = Christopher Brookmyre
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Black humour, Satire, Crime novel
publisher = Little Brown, London
release_date = 2005
media_type = Print (Hardback & (Paperback)
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"All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye" is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre.
Plot summary
Jane Fleming, a 46-year-old housewife and grandmother, lives a quiet life in suburban East Kilbride. All that changes when her son, Ross, who works in the arms industry, is forced into hiding when his latest research attracts unwanted attention. Aided by the mysterious Bett, Jane must confront drug dealers, assassins and ruthless arms dealers in order to save her son.
Awards
"All Fun And Games until Someone Loses an Eye" was the winner of the seventh Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2006.
External links
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1474006,00.html Observer review May 2005]
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