Book description
Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an
important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry
cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary.
But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face,
their history together, everything she has ever told him, everything
he has said to her - it has all gone, mysteriously wiped in one
catastrophic moment of memory loss. And now he has rediscovered her -
only to find out that they are getting divorced.
The Man Who Forgot His Wife is the funny, moving and poignant
story of a man who has done just that. And who will try anything to
turn back the clock and have one last chance to reclaim his life.
John O'Farrell is the author of four novels:
The Man Who Forgot
His Wife
,
May Contain Nuts
,
This Is Your Life
and
The Best a Man Can Get
. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages and have
been adapted for radio and television. He has also written two
best-selling history books:
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
and
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain
, as well as a political memoir,
Things Can Only Get Better
and three collections of his column in
The Guardian
. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as
Spitting Image,
Room 101, Murder Most Horrid
and
Chicken Run
, he is founder of the satirical website
NewsBiscuit
and can occasionally be spotted on such TV programmes as
Grumpy Old Men
,
Question Time
and
Have I Got News for You
.
