A brilliantly witty story of unconventional, unwavering, and regularly exasperating friendship.
Meet Jarvis Ham: tea-room assistant, diarist, lift-cadger, Princess Di fan, secret alcoholic, and relentless seeker of fame. Jarvis may be an all-round irritant, but he's harmless, and deep down, you know, he's got a heart of gold. Hasn't he?
As his oldest (and only) friend reflects on his life with Jarvis Ham infatuations, questionable hairstyles, home-made charity singles, reality TV auditions, paedophile alerts at the local swimming baths he wonders what it would have been like if they had never met. But what are you going to do? He's a mate. DRIVING JARVIS HAM is a novel for anyone who has ever found themself looking across at a childhood friend, and wondering why they still know them.
DRIVING JARVIS HAM by Jim Bob is a best-seller in the humorous fiction genre. The media has lauded it as a top pick for its witty and vivid picture of an unusual friendship.
For fans of J.B Morrison (The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81), Rachel Joyce (Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North), Fredrik Backman (And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer), Hazel Prior (Call of the Penguins), and Henning Koch (Britt-Marie Was Here).