About the Author:
Iain Hollingshead is an author and journalist. His first novel –Twenty Something – was published in May 2006. His second, Beta Male, appeared in April 2010. He has also written three spin-off books for the BBC’s BAFTA-winning spy drama Spooks, and has edited five bestselling collections of unpublished letters to The Daily Telegraph in the Am I alone in thinking...? series. He also co-authored and produced a musical – Blair on Broadway – which ran for three weeks in a pub theatre before transferring to the West End. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from the Guardian to GQ, Grazia to The Sunday Times.Regular columns have included “Loose Ends”, in the Saturday Guardian, and “Friends”, a pastiche of the coalition government in The Sunday Telegraph.
From Booklist:
In this lad's version of Bridget Jones's Diary (1998), 25-year-old London banker Jack Lancaster is experiencing a quarter-life crisis: he hates his soul-killing job, he's upset about his receding hairline and expanding waistline, and he's stuck in a disastrous relationship with his longtime girlfriend. As Jack records in his diary all the dismal turns his life has taken, or, as he puts it, why he has become such a "tosspot," he formulates a plan to free himself from the grindstone. He sets out to get himself fired and engages in a very funny war of words with his intimidating boss. Other complications involve the pregnancy of his ex-girlfriend and his infatuation with a beautiful colleague (which leaves him uncharacteristically tongue-tied). First-novelist Hollingshead has a real flair for comedy, especially evident in a hilarious series of e-mails describing Jack's disastrous trip to Latin America and a vitriolic letter he pens while doing volunteer political work. Pure comic gold. Joanne Wilkinson
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