A true story of one bloke’s early mid-life crisis - and how he gets his life back.
Nigel Marsh was a stressed, overweight, mortgage slave struggling to balance a high-pressured career running a Sydney advertising agency, a marriage and the demands of four small children under eight.
Then the unthinkable happened - he lost his job. After the initial shock (and some unpleasant surgery) Nigel decided to embrace life outside the office and spend a year taking stock. Fat, Forty and Fired is his a candid and often hilarious account of what happened next, as he attempts to master the art of hands-on parenting, lose 20 kilos, train for an ocean swimming race and come to terms with the growing realisation that he’s an alcoholic.
Along the way we discover what men (or this man) really think about sex in marriage, being good dads, work, love, football, family, religion, self-help books and sharks, just for starters. Fat, Forty and Fired gives a glimpse of what is really going on inside men's heads, and how they honestly feel about all the things that women find important: work-life balance, marriage, health and fitness, parenting, sex and marriage. |