’So the really nourishing grains, your groats, your buckwheat, which is really a pseudo-grain but packed with goodness, your teff, your sorghum…So your quinoa, your millet, your spelt,’ Davey continued, as though he were reciting the rosary. ‘Your amaranth, your bulgur. Your einkorn.’ Sir Leicester looked like a man hypnotized.

LOL this list is making me so happy. 😃

“He does not have a woman’s buttocks,’ said Linda. ‘I’m afraid he does, poor thing,’ said Aunt Sadie. ‘Callipygian, which is unusual in a man. But never mind. He can hardly help it. Besides,’ and here she smiled kindly at Linda, ‘I always think it must be just lovely to have a great big bottom. So comfortable, like walking around with one’s own cushions, or pillows even. No chair too grim. No pew too disagreeable. So clever of Tony!’ ‘Hardly,’ said Jassy. ‘He didn’t grow his huge bottom, Ma. It was congenital.’ ‘He must have grown it,’ said Sadie. ‘I’ve never seen a huge-bottomed baby. He might have grown it out of greed. To be fair, I can see how that might happen.’ ‘Hardly a towering achievement, growing an arse like that,’ Uncle Matthew said furiously.

🤣😂 I want to be in this family and have these kinds of discussions casually over breakfast.

(They’re not body shaming this Tony guy. If you read the book you’ll see why this is funny.)

’I love your music. I grew up listening to Sin, my parents loved you too. Wrath: Sin VI is the soundtrack to my youth.’ ‘You’re banned from listening to it,’ said Uncle Matthew. ‘Effective immediately.’

Bahahaha this Uncle Matthew is hilarious with his bad temper!!! I think he’s my favourite character so far.

“I will not let your memory be tarnished Señor.”

Hehe so cute!

Bahahaha loving this thesis into becoming a lesbian in mid-life. 😂🤣♥️

An awful lot of older women become lesbians, I think. So much less alarming than dealing with cantankerous old men, somehow.

“Classic profile for middle-aged lezhood, I was saying,’ continued Uncle Matthew. ‘Too clever, bit cross, single for ages, bookish –’ here his eyes settled on me – ‘set in her ways. Although Em’s jolly with it, I’ll grant you. The ones who go lezzer …’ ‘Don’t say “go lezzer”, darling,’ said Aunt Sadie mildly. ‘It makes you sound so old.’ ‘Yeah, but they’re of a type, aren’t they? The ones who go gay later in life. You know. Hard work. Bit intense. Low on laughs. Then they end up together and they cheer up because they can talk to each other about the Liberal Democrats and cats, and suddenly they’re really into it.’ ‘Yes,’ said Aunt Sadie. ‘And then one night there’s some tentative touching, and wham, their lives start anew. I think it’s lovely. So romantic.”

This book is hilarious!!!

All reviews said it’s going to be heartbreaking later on. I’m dreading that part because these characters are really growing on me. 🥺😫