Gods Behaving Badly

From Marie Phillips, hailed by the Guardian Unlimited website as a hot author destined to break through in 2007, comes a highly entertaining novel set in North London, where the Greek gods have been living in obscurity since the seventeenth century.Being immortal isnt all its cracked up to be. Lifes hard for a Greek god in the twenty-first century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesnt respect you, and youre stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) theres no way out until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives and turn the world upside down. Gods Behaving Badly is that rare thing, a charming, funny, utterly original novel that satisfies the head and the heart.From the Hardcover edition.