Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he's died many times. Not just on stage - though he'll tell you about that - but in other ways,too. There's been the death of a childhood dream. The death of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died inside and nearly lost it all...
Eye-opening,revealing and painfully funny,this is a book about mortification,failure and all the times life doesn't work out as planned. But it also wisely questions whether the things we strive for - recognition,success,the approval of others - are really the things that matter. It's a book about death that reminds us how to live.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781399607681Number of pages: 256Weight: 460 gDimensions: 238 x 162 x 30 mm
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'Cruel dismissals,personal mortifications,career disappointments and daggers to the heart. This is Mark Watson's brave look at failure. Lucky it's funny or it'd be really depressing'- Danny Wallace
'Mark Watson's abundant,whip-smart humour is all over every page. His honesty in this book is a tonic,a generous gift to anyone who has ever tried to "make it"'- Shaparak Khorsandi
'Life is full of hurdles,but this hilarious book brilliantly demonstrates that we learn more by hitting them than clearing them. The world is overflowing with disappointments,but thankfully this book is not one of them'- Richard Herring
'Mark Watson makes the base metal of failure into comedy gold'- Adam Kay
'Mark Watson is a national treasure'- Richard Osman
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