Utterly original deeply moving & very funny Ethel & Ernest is the story of Raymond Brigg's parents' marriage from their first chance encounter to their deaths told in Brigg's unique strip-cartoon format. Nothing is invented nothing embroidered
- this is the reality of two decent ordinary lives of two people who as Briggs tells the story become representative of us all. The book is also social history; we see the dark days of the Second World War the birth of the Welfare State the advent of television & all the changes which were so exhilarating & bewildering for Ethel & Ernest. A marvellous life-enhancing book for all ages.