The Best a Man Can Get

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'Punchline fuelled, relentless humour...l don't think a woman is going to get much closer to the workings of a man's mind than this. Giggling several times a page with plenty of out-loud laughs is guaranteed. Is John O'Farrell funny? Very' The Mirror Michael Adams shares a fiat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by teliing his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret fiat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can have it all, until his deception is inevitably exposed... 'So funny because it rings true...Packed with painfully well-observed... Tovább

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'Punchline fuelled, relentless humour...l don't think a woman is going to get much closer to the workings of a man's mind than this. Giggling several times a page with plenty of out-loud laughs is guaranteed. Is John O'Farrell funny? Very' The Mirror Michael Adams shares a fiat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by teliing his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret fiat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can have it all, until his deception is inevitably exposed... 'So funny because it rings true...Packed with painfully well-observed jokes' The Times 'This is SO good...so insightful about men, women, love and parenthood that you read every page with a wince of recognition. Fab, fab, fab' India Knight 'A hilarious confessional narrative. This wickedly observed page-turner lets bachelor nostalgia joyride to its absurd conclusion...Piquant and irreverently sardonic' Literary Review Vissza