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Oh, I Do Like To Be...
By Marie Phillips
Oh, I Do Like To Be...
By Marie Phillips
Billy's a clone of William Shakespeare. So is Bill. Neither of them know that the other one exists. Today they're going to meet.
Shakespeare clone and would-be playwright Billy has just arrived in an English seaside town with his sister Sally, who was cloned from a hair found on the back of a bus seat. All Billy wants is a cheap B&B, an ice cream, and a huge hit in the West End. Little does he know that their fellow clones Bill and Sal are also residents of this town. Things are about to get confusing. This modern update of The Comedy of Errors is what you get when Gods Behaving Badly author Marie Phillips decides to write an important, scholarly work about the life of William Shakespeare, reads the complete works, including the long poems nobody likes, and then decides to turn it into a short, silly farce that you can probably finish reading in an afternoon with two tea breaks.
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Marie Phillips is the author of the international bestseller Gods Behaving Badly, and The Table of Less Valued Knights (longlisted for the Baileys Prize). With Robert Hudson, she wrote the BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters, which was also a successful Unbound book, and Some Hay in a Manger. Under the name Vanessa Parody, she and some friends who prefer to remain anonymous wrote Fifty Shelves of Grey, a spoof of Fifty Shades of Grey that was surprisingly popular in Russia.
"As if Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett" - The Guardian.
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