Clover Hendry's Day Off
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3.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious and empowering perimenopausal Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, about Clover Hendry, 46, and the day she decides to stop keeping the plates spinning, say F@#! it all, and finally get hers.
Today is not the day to mess with Clover Hendry.
Clover hasn’t said “No” a day in her life. Until today. Normally a woman who tips her hairdresser even when the cut is hideous, is endlessly patient with her horrendous mother, and says yes every time her boss asks her to work late—today, things are going to be very different. Because Clover is taking the day off. Today, she’s going to do and say whatever she likes, even if it means her whole life unravels.
What made Clover change her ways? Why doesn’t she care anymore? There’s more to this day than meets the eye.
Clover Hendry's Day Off is a joyful, raging, galvanizing story about putting life on pause, pleasing yourself, and getting your own back. Whatever it takes. Because when Clover stops caring, she can start living.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the surprisingly deep and satisfying latest from Morrey (Delphine Jones Takes a Chance), an anxious British TV producer finally stands up for herself, sparking a series of events that are by turn disastrous and redemptive. Clover, 46, grew up under the disapproving gaze of her hypercritical, self-absorbed mother, Rose. Now, after downing two Vicodin and briefly passing out at a train station on the way to the studio in Bristol, Clover indulges the sudden urge to mouth off to her boss and ditch work. Not only has she found confidence, she's shed her usual caution. While visiting an art gallery, she encourages a toddler to play in an installation ("I congratulate myself. I've created more art out of art"). Later, the gallery informs her it's been damaged. Then, after getting annoyed by a yoga group in a park, she commandeers a lawn mower and plows over their mats. Eventually, she contends with the consequences of her impulses, which range from friends' hurt feelings to the possibility of litigation. The book particularly blossoms in its second half, during which more is revealed about Clover's childhood and how she cared for her younger sister when Rose couldn't be bothered. In Morrey's hands, this offers more than escapist fun.
