William Walkers First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story
By (Author) Matt Rudd
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
17th September 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
223g
For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding true love only to discover that happy endings are just the beginning comes this brilliantly comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, performance anxiety, and what it takes to make happily ever last beyond the honeymoon.
William is a happy man. He has just married Isabel, the girl of his dreams, and is confidently sailing along on a sea of wedded bliss. Hes got a hot wife, a snazzy new job and things couldnt be much better. Sure, there are a few bumps in the road, but life on the whole is good.
That is until Isabels best friend Alex starts to intrude on their wedded bliss. And when Williams ex-girlfriend Saskia aka the Destroyer of Relationships appears on the scene, things go from bad to worse. For marriage, William quickly discovers, has its own set of rules. And while falling in love is easy, staying in love can be a whole lot trickier
Witty, irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny, William Walkers First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story is the perfect novel for anyone who has ever wanted to know what the person theyre facing at the altar is REALLY thinking and been rightly afraid to ask.
As far as honest representations of ones own gender go, theres got to be something fascinating about a book that provides such insightful glimpses into the male psycheBrilliant characterisation with more than a whiff of authenticity, a fast-paced narrative and hilarious dialogue will keep you engrossed in Williams various disasters to the end. Sara Lawrence, Daily Mail
Matt Rudds sparklingly energetic, sometimes laugh-aloud, sometimes touching novelmixes the accident-prone and amiable prattishness of Lucky Jim and Bridget Jones with a liberal dollop of farce.William turns out to be an innocent searching for the right path.Getting to know him is to enter into the blundering, puzzled hell of the male up against the eternal feminine enigma. Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times
Hilarious and hugely enjoyable. A frank, funny insight into what men really think about women and marriage. Tracy Quan, author of Diary of a Jetssetting Call Girl
Writing geniusthe hilarious insights into a mans mind will make you laugh out loud Cosmo
'Meet the male Bridget Jones. Williams just married and has a view on everything from ex-girlfirends and wives to male best friends and work. But his luck takes a hilarious turn for the worse. Be prepared to LOL on the train. 5 stars Company Magazine
'Matt Rudd's sparklingly energetic, sometimes laugh-aloud, sometimes touching novel gives us a further heads-up: actually, the Beast longs to be tamed.' The Sunday Times
Matt Rudd is senior writer at the Sunday Times. In the name of journalism, he has worn a short skirt in public, had a tour of a 300,000 lettuce shredder and stood outside Pippa Middletons book launch for six hours in the freezing cold. In the name of this book, he has spent the last two years on the road with binoculars, a notebook and many Red Bulls. He lives in Kent with his family. Follow him @mattrudd.