Book info

• Title After Henry
• Author Simon Brett
• Year 1987
• Genre Humour

After the death of her GP husband, widow Sarah is battling to bring up her strong-willed 18-year-old daughter Clare, hindered by her meddling mother Eleanor. Living on the middle floor of the family home, with Clare downstairs and Eleanor upstairs, Sarah finds herself besieged from above and below as she tries to cope with the demands of both her mum and her daughter. Luckily, she finds solace at work, where her best friend and boss at Bygone Books, Russell, provides a sympathetic ear.

Thoughts

I have loved the radio series After Henry for a long time, I’ve listened to it many, many times. I also enjoy the TV adaptation, so was intrigued to find there was a novelisation as well. I found it to borrow on the internet archive and read through it in super quick time. It’s basically the first few episodes of the radio show, and the dialogue is practically word for word, so it slipped by very quickly. But it’s so lovely to revisit these characters in a different format.

Rating: 5 / 5