Starter for Ten
The debut bestseller from the author of the phenomenally successfully ONE DAY and Man Booker longlisted US. STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom.
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson.
When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . .
STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
473 pages, 5 editions
English edition · First published 2003 by Flame · ISBN 9780340734872
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Editions
5 editions
English
- Starter for Ten · Flame · 2004 · ISBN 9780340734872 This page
- Starter for Ten · Hodder · 2006 · ISBN 9780340924648
- Starter for Ten · Windsor/Paragon · 2004 · ISBN 9780754094333
- Starter for Ten · Hodder and Stoughton · 2004 · ISBN 9780340833063
- Starter for Ten · Hodder & Stoughton · 2003 · ISBN 9781444705638
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