Driving Jarvis Ham

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A brilliantly witty story of unconventional, unwavering, and regularly exasperating friendship.
Meet Jarvis Ham: tea-room assistant, diarist, lift-cadger, Princess Di fan, secret alcoholic, and relentless seeker of fame. Jarvis may be an all-round irritant, but hes harmless, and deep down, you know, hes got a heart of gold. Hasnt he

As his oldest (and only) friend reflects on his life with Jarvis Ham infatuations, questionable hairstyles, home-made charity singles, reality TV auditions, paedophile alerts at the local swimming baths he wonders what it would have been like if they had never met. But what are you going to do Hes a mate. DRIVING JARVIS HAM is a novel for anyone who has ever found themself looking across at a childhood friend, and wondering why they still know them.

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'Very creepy. Luckily, very funny as well.' NIKESH SHUKLA, author of COCONUT UNLIMITED

Driving Jarvis Ham is a darkly comic novel, hilarious in parts INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Rude, crude but hysterically funny NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE

An idiosyncratic modern comedy for our times ANDREW COLLINS

Very bloody funny indeed, in a creepy, original way. EMLYN REES, author of Come Together

Some real laugh out loud moments. ESSIE FOX, author of The Somnambulist

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Jim Bob is an author, musician, father and occasional (onetime) musical theatre star. He lives in South London, and holidays in Devon.