Inconceivable

Humor

Author: Ben Elton

Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn’t that simple. Lucy thinks thinks Sam is a sad, cold sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a newspaper than have an emotion. Sam thinks Lucy is blaming him because she can’t walk past Mothercare without getting all teary. The problem is that they might be infertile. And in mor….Read More

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