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The Man Who Forgot His Wife

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552771634

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 273g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Man Who Forgot His Wife

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.

  • Imprint: Black Swan

  • ISBN: 9780552771634

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 273g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • It's a rare treat to come across a novel that is both comic and thoughtfully acute about love, and life, and stuff... Hilarious and heart-tugging, this is indeed a memorable comedy

    Guardian

  • John O'Farrell has tapped the rich seam of domestic life in this fun new novel

    Mirror

  • Exudes prime-time, feel-good gold... What's not to like?

    Daily Mail

  • A brilliantly comic tale with some sharp observations on modern marriage from one of the funniest writers around

    Bella

  • The jokes keep coming in this novel about an amnesiac family man, but the punchlines involve some serious philosophical thought

    Independent on Sunday

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About the Author

John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell's first book was a bestselling memoir, Things Can Only Get Better. Since then he has published five novels: The Man Who Forgot His Wife, May Contain Nuts, This Is Your Life, The Best a Man Can Get and most recently There's Only Two David Beckhams. 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 three collections of journalism from his Guardian columns. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have been adapted for radio and television. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as Spitting Image, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, Murder Most Horrid and Chicken Run, he is founder of the UK's first daily news satire website NewsBiscuit and more recently co-wrote the Broadway musical Something Rotten!

John O'Farrell

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