Lazy likeable scoundrel Toby Tucker travels with a widow who pays, and has it good—except that her nine-year-old daughter is his mental superior, and amuses herself by getting him into fixes. In the spirit of the inestimable PG Wodehouse, the little girl is his Jeeves.
In Total Moisture (the order of the series matters not at all) Toby, Marcie and “the child” have been summoned to Cannes where Marcie’s rich father-in-law is arranging to be adopted by an elderly aristocrat so he can inherit the title and become a “Count.” To make the best impression on his new family he needs Toby out of the way, but when the Countess starts flirting with Toby….
“Laugh-out-loud tears-in-your-eyes funny,” says an Amazon review on this page. (I love you, whoever you are.) Here are some HarperCollins Authonomy comments:
“Hilarious!”—Skaterwriter
“Despite the glowing reviews in the pitch, the blurb does not do Total Moisture justice. The work is undeniably zany, off the wall, offbeat and 100% hilariously and riotously funny..”—Robert Davidson (The Tuzla Run on Amazon)
“I want to take this on holiday next week!”—Liz Hoban
“What a fantastic book….Polished and professional stuff.”—Yasmin Esack ‘This is funny with a capital FUN. You have that draining sarcasm that pulls laughter from the chest and secret smiles at agreement in everything you say.’—andrew skaife
“yep..truly funny! Have to say, maybe it’s just me, but when I read your short blurb I thought, ‘oh, no..that means it won’t be funny’..but it IS..yayyyyy!”—Deborah Aldrich Farhi
“The male character who professes to not read literature speaks as if he came from great literature.”—A J Mahler
“Irreverent from page one – that’s my kind of book….You definitely get the tenor and timing of humor in writing, which is no easy task.”—Christian Piatt (several books on Amazon)
“from the start a very good book. written with such smooth style.”—Su Dan
“I wish I had read Foreign Matter. I feel like I missed something. I’m sure it was as funny as Total Moisture.”—Walden Carrington
“Great stuff – very funny. As a toilet reader, I appreciated the opening. Excellent dialogue throughout.”—Barry Wenlock
“well-crafted and enjoyable.”—Katherine L. Holmes “Clever and laugh-out-loud funny.”—Joanna Carter
“I truly wish I had half your talent.”—Denise
“Witty, funny, smart.”—Elizabeth Wolfe
“Very well written and funny.”—Herschel Shirley
“a pleasure to read.”—Andrew Burans
“I haven’t been in the south of France for years so I really enjoyed the descriptions of such a beautiful place. Your dialogue is very well done: always brief and to the point.”—Burgio
“Your pitch sucked me in to read your book & your tight paragraphs & dialogue kept me reading.”—Susie Gulick
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