#BlogTour and #BookGiveaway-‘Oh I Do Like To Be’ by Marie Phillips

About The Book…..

Shakespeare clone and would-be playwright Billy has just arrived in an English seaside town with his sister Sally, who was cloned from a hair found on the back of a bus seat. All Billy wants is a cheap B&B, an ice cream and a huge hit in the West End. Little does he know that their fellow clones Bill and Sal are also residents of this town. Things are about to get confusing – cue professional rivalry, marital discord and a family reunion like no other. This modern update of ‘The Comedy of Errors’ is what you get when ‘Gods Behaving Badly’ author Marie Phillips decides to write an important, scholarly work about the life of William Shakespeare, reads the complete works, including the long poems nobody likes, and then decides to turn it into a witty, delightful romp that you can probably finish reading in an afternoon with two tea breaks.

My thanks to Anne Cater of ‘Random Things Tours’ and Unbound for my copy of ‘Oh I Do Like To Be’ by  Marie Phillips.

Sally and Billy arrive in a seaside town having run away from their heartless  mother who cloned one from William Shakespeare’s tooth and one from a hair found on a bus. All they want is some peace and the space to be themselves, but after a series of hilarious incidents, become split up and mixed up with Sal and Bill who were raised by their father and also live at the seaside.

Add in Thandie, Bill’s wife, Anthony , Bill’s lover and there are all the necessary ingredients for a Shakespeare worthy comedy of errors.

A slight, yet hilarious romp through the two set of twins lives, this novel asks the question ‘How are you supposed to totally yourself when you are a clone of another person?’ and ‘Is it possible to be totally yourself when you have a genetic predispositio to greatness?’

‘Oh I do Like To Be’ , as the title, riffs on the famous ‘To be or not to be..’ speech from Hamlet- it is a tale of identity, belonging and being true to yourself no matter who your parents are or what they want from you.

Just as funny and poignant as ‘Gods Behaving Badly’, I would absoutely recommend it, so much that I have a copy to give away!
Simply comment on here, follow me and comment on this review on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram (links at the top of the homepage) and I will pick a name out of a tophat on Sunday 3rd February.

This book giveaway is international so say hello!

About The Author

Marie Phillips is the author of the international bestseller ‘‘Gods behaving Badly’‘ and ‘‘The Table of Less Valued Knights’ , which was longlisted for the Baileys Prize. With Robert Hudson, she wrote the BBC Radio 4 series ‘‘War Horses Of Letters’ and ‘‘Some Hay In A Manger’. Under the name Vanessa Parody, she co-wrote ‘Fifty Shelves Of Grey’ , a spoof of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey ‘.

https://www.mariephillips.co.uk/

Twitter @mppphillips