Driving Jarvis Ham

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 themselves looking across at a childhood friend, and wondering why they still know them.

Reviews

'Very creepy. Luckily, very funny as well.' NIKESH SHUKLA, author of COCONUT UNLIMITED

‘Driving Jarvis Ham is a darkly comic novel, hilarious in parts’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

‘Rude, crude but hysterically funny’ NEW BOOKS MAGAZINE

‘An idiosyncratic modern comedy for our times’ ANDREW COLLINS

‘Very bloody funny indeed, in a creepy, original way.’ EMLYN REES, author of Come Together

‘Some real laugh out loud moments.’ ESSIE FOX, author of The Somnambulist

About the author

Jim Bob is an author, musician, father and occasional (onetime) musical theatre star. He lives in South London, and holidays in Devon.