The Man Who Forgot His Wife
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409031024
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Man Who Forgot His Wife

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15 Mar 2012
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Funny, moving, poignant - the terrific new novel from the bestselling author of An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

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.
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409031024
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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About the author

John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell's first book Things Can Only Get Better about his years spent helping the Labour Party lose elections at every level was a number one best-seller. Two decades later he published the sequel Things Can Only Get Worse. In between his two comic memoirs, he published five novels, including The Best A Man Can Get, May Contain Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife; two funny history books (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and its sequel) plus three collections of his satirical columns from The Guardian. His books have been translated into over thirty languages and adapted for TV and radio. Formerly a comedy scriptwriter for shows such as Spitting Image and Have I Got News For You, he more recently co-wrote the movie Chicken Run 2 and two Broadway musicals; Something Rotten! and Mrs Doubtfire.

Also by John O'Farrell

Family Politics
Things Can Only Get Worse?
There's Only Two David Beckhams
I Blame The Scapegoats
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
I Have A Bream
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Praise for The Man Who Forgot His Wife

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

Bella

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

Daily Mail

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

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

Independent on Sunday