Reading Challenge February: A Spot Of Bother

Mark Haddon's A Spot Of Bother, recommended by life_of_tom is a story about a very ordinary English family discovering that being ordinary does not mean you are not totally dysfunctional. It's a gently funny, slightly sad story brightly written in short chapters that make it easy to read just one more. And then one more. And so on.

One character's story revolved around fear for his health and then the discovery that his wife is having an affair leading him into an ongoing collapse into mental illness.

Although it's only thematically linked to my own situation, I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read it at a different time.

Whingiest. Book review. Ever.

I mean really, you can't blame a book for being tactless when you're the one reading it! It's not like I couldn't have chosen to read something else. Except that February had ended and I hadn't finished it so I thought I should persist because to do otherwise would be inauthentic.

Which means, basically, I have no right to complain. That was all self inflicted. It's a very nice book. I'm an idiot.