Bloater

‘Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it’s fantastic. It makes you question the canon. What else have they missed? The idiots’ Stewart LeeThe Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners, of flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, trying to create an authentic heartbeat sound effect, and ignore her colleagues. Min is theoretically married, but George is so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off even when he’s still in the room. Min is also being courted by an internationally renowned opera singer who she refers to as The Bloater (a swelled, salted herring). Disgusted by him and attracted to him in equal measure, her dilemma is whether to sleep with him or not.Vain and materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, this is the perfect rediscovered Classic for today.’Uncommonly good’ Guardian ‘It is the perfect aperitif, makes you feel warm and careless and much, much happier’ The Times ‘THE BLOATER delights us by its wit, relish, and new-minted metaphors’ Daily Telegraph ‘Brittle, spry, spiky, amusing, a comedy of love… an original and distinctive flavour’ Sunday Times]]>