A Class Act

A Class Act
ISBN-10
0008468222
ISBN-13
9780008468224
Series
A Class Act
Category
Class consciousness
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2021-10-14
Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Rob Beckett

Description

Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, he's the laddie, cockney geezer, but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, he's the theatrical one, a media luvvie. Even at home, his wife and kids are posher than him.

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