Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340821152

Price: £7.99

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Pel Dalton’s life is uneventful. He spends his days bluffing through an IT job in the university library, pillow-fighting with his two sons and finding new things to argue about with Ursula, his German girlfriend. But all this is about to change. When his boss suddenly disappears, and Pel steps reluctantly into his shoes, his life begins to spiral out of control. Stolen money, missing colleagues, ominous calls from Hong Kong, and something nasty beneath the university foundations are only the beginning of Pel’s problems. Faced with embarrassing PTA meetings and a fridge that really needs defrosting, Pel is about to learn that sometimes the things that drive you crazy can be the only things that keep you sane.

Reviews

Millington takes us to the place where relationships go bad, but never forgets the humour
Latest Homes
A brilliantly written comedy. A novel that manages to be both funny and affectionate
Guardian
Cringingly familiar, devastatingly funny . . . definitely one for fans of Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons
Mango Book Club website
With his tear-inducing humour, Millington has tapped into the zeitgeist, Helen Fielding-style.
Vogue
Laugh out loud funny, realistic, insightful and thoroughly entertaining
Courier
While books that claim to be 'laugh-out-loud funny' are legion, ones such as this that actually are are rarer than molars on a Rhode Island Hen . . . There is little to say about coupledom that is not wittily and often movingly explored here. Sharply-written, brilliantly observed and absolutely hilarious.
Wendy Holden, Daily Mail
A fantastic debut - a funny and heart-warming comedy about love, fatherhood and being in the wrong places at all the wrong times.
Essentials
Highlights just how painful love can be and just how much its precious memories should be valued
The Week
Insightful and wickedly funny.
Heat
The plot escalates with all the shameless hyperbole needed to fuel a really good row . . . This is a very funny book.
Observer
Compulsive reading . . . drenched in self-deprecating humour.
Metro
Mil Millington's comic timing is spot-on in this laugh-out-loud warm-hearted and engaging novel.
Publishing News
A very funny look at relationships.
Company
It's impossible not to laugh out loud at the Anglo-German quips and world-weary observations that tumble off the page
Guardian
A brilliant, thoroughly urbane hoot
The Big Issue in the North
A funny and touching read
Hello
Hilarious and insightful . . . Realistic and acerbic, this first novel is bound to receive a lot of attention.
Bookseller
Mil Millington's legendary bust-ups with his long-term lover . . . have now spawned a madcap novel.
In Style
It's really funny
Daily Express
A surprise hit . . . a quirky little comedy.
Mirror
Guaranteed to raise a smile
Irish News
Funny . . . moves at a cracking pace
Sunday Mirror
A comedy of relationships in all their confusions
Sunday Life
I don't normally quote for fiction, but as clearly all Mil has done in the way of fiction here is change the name 'Mil' to the name 'Pel', I have no compunction whatsoever in pointing out that this is completely hilarious.
Jenny Colgan