Samuel Lover’s Handy Andy (1842) is a classic of Irish comic fiction, following the magnificently well-intentioned and equally catastrophic Andy Rooney as he blunders through Irish country life, creating spectacular havoc at every turn with absolute sincerity and not a trace of malice. The novel established ‘Handy Andy’ as a lasting English byword for cheerful, well-meaning incompetence.
Rollicking, affectionate, and consistently funny, it remains one of the most entertaining and most vivid portraits of nineteenth-century Irish rural life in the fiction of the period. Download this free EPUB and let Andy help you — strictly at your own considerable risk.