This Age We're Living In
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773782
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $14.99

This Age We're Living In

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Funny, affecting and life-affirming novel for everyone who has ever felt that sometimes life really is pants...

'Only two big facts are known for certain: you are on a large spinning rock hurtling through space at about 67,000 mph, and one day your body is going to die. Will a new pair of shoes really help?' Worth's 12th Rule of Shopping

George Worth is a grumpy lifestyle columnist who works in a woman's world. He hates fashion, mobile phones, computers and Young People. At night he goes home to a borrowed Labrador and feelings of guilt about his dead wife.

Justin Smith is a Young Person. A bright newcomer, he's always on his mobile to his girlfriend, surfing the Net and keeping abreast of the latest trends.

Then comes the day when Justin's girlfriend throws him out and he finds himself having to share a flat with George. As the women around them watch and wonder both men start to work out what really matters among the obsessions and distractions of modern life.

Laugh-out-loud funny, moving and revealing, This Age We're Living In is a novel that confronts the big questions: Can shopping solve everything? Why are boxers better than Y-fronts? Are lifestyle writers secretly in the same mess as everyone else? And if life is a journey, who the hell changed all the signposts?
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552773782
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $14.99
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About the author

David Wilson

David Wilson co-founded the charity War Child, which brought attention to the war-stricken Balkans through its 1995 album Help featuring Brian Eno, Oasis, Radiohead, Portishead, Sinéad O'Connor, Massive Attack, Blur, Suede, Stone Roses, Orbital, Manic Street Preachers and PJ Harvey. In 2000, David worked with the Guardian to expose corruption in War Child, the very charity he had helped create.

During the Bosnian war he started a mobile bakery, organised medical deliveries throughout the country and facilitated music workshops with children in Sarajevo and Mostar. With Pavarotti's support, he constructed the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar and served as its first director.

David has lived many lives – gaucho, sailor, teacher, art agent, filmmaker, war crime witness, aid worker, playwright – but he has brought to them all his lifelong spirit of political activism.

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Praise for This Age We're Living In

A smashing book. It's so rare to find a writer who makes you chuckle and think, and who can strike a balance between laughter and integrity...David Wilson has done it brilliantly and touchingly

MAVIS CHEEK

Witty, perceptive, observant, provocative, wise; funny but never played just for laughs; the best book I've read this year

TOM HOLT

Warm-hearted, suspenseful, entertaining

THE TIMES

Amusing, poignant, challenging...it is more than just a comic read, no ordinary passing-of age novel and certainly not a male menopause rant... In truth, it probably deserves to be in a class of its own

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Tragic, funny, sensitive, raging against the modern world, and proof that an ordinary middle-aged bloke really does have feelings

MICHELLE HANSON

An enjoyable, funny, touching novel.

THE TIMES

A nice first-timer from Wilson... Lots of lovely cameos and wit... Great fun.

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