Gods Behaving Badly
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407091488
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Gods Behaving Badly

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Funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all its potential.

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a delapidated hovel in north London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out... Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down.

Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original first novel that satisfies the head and the heart.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407091488
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Marie Phillips

Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. Her first novel, Gods Behaving Badly, was published in 2007. Widely acclaimed, it was translated into over fifteen languages and made into a feature film. She is also the writer, with fellow novelist Robert Hudson, of the BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters.

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Praise for Gods Behaving Badly

An absolutely delightful novel

Scotland on Sunday

Funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all it's potential

Observer

Ingeniously imagined and satisfyingly lusty

Guardian

The Olympians are immortal - this we all know. But it has taken Marie Phillips' wit to put them back where they belong - into a decrepit 21st-century London bedsit. It is all very, very funny...this book charms and provokes in a paragraph. I am writing this in Delphi, dangling my feet in Apollo's sacred spring - the water is said to bring the muse. Phillips clearly has a bottle of it on her desk

Bettany Hughes, The Times

Very, very funny and delightfully original as well as acutely clever in a makes-you-think-about-contemporary-morality-without-realising-it kind of way... this novel will not only make you laugh and give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling, it will also provide a good basic grounding in Greek mythology

Independent

What makes the novel stand out - and it really does stand out - is its originality and lightness of touch

Daily Telegraph
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