Book description
Michael Adams shares a flat 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 telling 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 flat, doing all the things that
most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can
have it all, until is deception is inevitably exposed...
The Best a Man Can Get is written with the hilarious eye for detail
that sent John O'Farrell's first book, Things Can Only Get Better, to
the top of the bestseller lists. It is a darkly comic confessional
that is at once compelling, revealing and very, very funny.
John O'Farrell is the author of seven books. His first book, Things
Can Only Get Better, was a number one bestseller and was dramatized for
BBC Radio 4. The Best a Man Can Get was the bestselling debut novel of
2002. As well as being a bestselling author, John O'Farrell is a regular
contributor to television and radio. For the past five years he has
written a weekly humorous column for the Guardian, three collections of
which have been published as Global Village Idiot, I Blame the
Scapegoats and I Have a Bream.
