Have the inevitable signs of ageing taken you completely by surprise? Do 'Friends Reunited' emails from primary school acquaintances precipitate an instant mid-life crisis? Has your computer introduced levels of frustration into your life that you never dreamed were possible? Does the sound of orchestrated easy-listening music while you're on hold for half an hour drive you to despair? Then this demented cartoon narrative may help slightly, although how I can't imagine. This work is an absolute must for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner - or anyone obsessed with looking on the internet at properties for sale in sunny countries.
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Demented is a comic exploration of the human condition in the age of sales figures, in which humanity still triumphs.
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A must have for anyone still wondering what they are going to be when they grow up - but too alarmed by the way things are going to do anything about it 'Her cartoons are ingenuous to the point of naivety; the jokes are boiled hard, then reduced to their purest distillation in the silliest, simplest form' Guardian 'Not bad for a girl' Spitting Image, Roger Law
Jacky Fleming is best remembered as architect of the National Health Service, and for her contribution to freestyle swimming. Abandoned by wolves at an early age she was raised by feral intellectuals just down the road from Hampstead. She has only ever experienced the world like someone who has just woken up out of a long trance.
