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The Best A Man Can Get

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2,707 Ratings by Goodreads
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Paperback, 336 pages
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Published
United Kingdom, 4 June 2001

The hilarious first novel from the bestselling author of Things Can Only Get Better.

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.

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The hilarious first novel from the bestselling author of Things Can Only Get Better.

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.

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Product Details
EAN
9780552998444
ISBN
0552998443
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Dimensions
12.9 x 19.8 x 1.9 centimeters (0.24 kg)

Promotional Information

The hilarious first novel from the bestselling author of THE MAN WHO FORGOT HIS WIFE

About the Author

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.

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Punchline fuelled, relentless humour...I 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
*Daily Mirror*

So funny because it rings true... Packed with painfully well-observed jokes
*The Times*

A hilarious confessional narrative. This wickedly observed page-turner lets bachelor-nostalgia joyride to its absurd conclusion... Piquant and irreverently sardonic
*Literary Review*

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*

Excellent... Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud
*Angus Deayton*

Punchline fuelled, relentless humour...I 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 * Daily Mirror *
So funny because it rings true... Packed with painfully well-observed jokes * The Times *
A hilarious confessional narrative. This wickedly observed page-turner lets bachelor-nostalgia joyride to its absurd conclusion... Piquant and irreverently sardonic * Literary Review *
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
Excellent... Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud -- Angus Deayton

A columnist for the Independent in London whose nonfiction work, Things Can Only Get Better, hit the top spot on the Sunday Times best sellers list, O'Farrell dreams up a husband who periodically escapes by hanging out all day with buddies at a secret flat. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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