book reviewed live on show by Brian Lowen on 12th Dec 2013
Not my usual type
of book but it made a pleasant change.
Michael Adams
shares a flat in London with three other men in their late twenties. Days are
spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of
work. Michael is a musician, composing jingles for adverts on the TV. 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
telling his wife he has to work through the night, or up country. While she is
valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat,
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, and then
his wife throws him out.
The book is quite
amusing, not hilariously funny as it says on the cover, but I enjoyed it. There
are some good bits I found very funny, like when he is trying to make things up
with his wife while she is in labour in hospital having their third child and
there is also good repartee between the four flatmates.
Some of the
descriptions as to how one’s life dramatically changes when you have a baby
could be enough to make any young couples think again about starting a family.
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