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Eric has a great idea: going on hol­i­day with his wife and two teenage chil­dren. The chil­dren will be leav­ing the nest soon and Eric wants one last vaca­tion with all four of them together as a fam­ily. So off they go to the Trallee and car­a­van park. Eric decides to keep a jour­nal of this last trip with his whole fam­ily to keep the good mem­o­ries for future times. What Eric didn’t know was that all the things he has to write in his jour­nal aren’t happy times, but are sit­u­a­tions that go from bad to worse. And just when he thinks there isn’t any worse to come, he gets dis­ap­pointed again, because there seems to be no limit to what he has to endure. It surely turns out to be a hell of a vacation!

Nichol­son has writ­ten a very black com­edy. Now, I’m a per­son who can see the humor in it, even when some­times the story gets too ridicu­lous in mis­ery, but I guess this book isn’t for every one.

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