Authors: David Nobbs
A Bit of a Do (47 page)
‘A year ago you might have said it’s ridiculous if somebody had said you’d be a head waiter and you’d spend the rest of your life with a sacked bakery assistant you met at the DHSS,’ she said. ‘But it isn’t ridiculous, is it?’
‘No. Of course it isn’t.’
‘Well, cheer up, then,’ she said. She placed her left hand gently on his crotch. ‘Don’t you love me?’
‘Sandra! Love! What a question! Of course I do!’ He kissed her gently. ‘Madly!’ he said. ‘Deliriously! Totally!’ He kissed her again, much more enthusiastically, running his tongue round the gap in her top teeth. Then, slowly, he withdrew from the embrace. ‘But,’ he said.
David Nobbs’s first break as a comedy writer came on the iconic satire show
That Was The Week, That Was
, hosted by David Frost. Later he wrote for
The Frost Report
and
The Two Ronnies
and provided material for many top comedians including Les Dawson, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Dick Emery.
Apart from his nineteen novels, David is best known for his two hit TV series
A Bit of a Do
and
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
.
His new radio series
With Nobbs
On aired on Radio 4 in 2012.
Also by David Nobbs
NOVELS
The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger
It Had to be You
Obstacles to Young Love
Cupid’s Dart
Sex and Other Changes
Going Gently
Fair Do’s
A Piece of the Sky is Missing
Ostrich Country
The Itinerant Lodger
REGINALD PERRIN SERIES
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
The Better World of Reginald Perrin
The Return of Reginald Perrin
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
PRATT
Pratt à Manger
The Cucumber Man
Pratt of the Argus
Second from Last in the Sack Race
NONFICTION
I Didn’t Get Where I am Today
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are
the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is
entirely coincidental.
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