This book self-confessedly based upon the vicissitudes of his own family life. The Robinsons - a Christian but very human family consisting of parents plus three children aged 18, 14 and 6 - struggle to achieve the peace and harmony that should (surely) result from quite ordinary activities. Among these are Friday night: what video, what take-away, why the unwanted visitors? A camping trip: why do they do it? It always rains, there's nothing to do, and the toilets are...unmentionable. Visitors staying: the politics of the bathroom. The car journey: rows, sickness, mindless games, breakdowns. Christmas Day: Dad's neuroses, new board games and batteries, and Father Christmas. Buying clothes: oldest son's Oxfam preference, designer labels and...giving up.
- ISBN10 0551031085
- ISBN13 9780551031081
- Publish Date 18 February 2000 (first published 20 March 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint Zondervan
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk