Therapy

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment. Review: Full of delights... His view of our neuroses is sane, intelligent and amused -- John Mortimer * Sunday Times * Energetic, comic...a highly ingenious games-board of moves and counter-moves * Sunday Telegraph * Lodge remains one of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era; and Therapy is good for you * Time Out * Takes off on wings of humour and pathos which would not have disgraced Lodge's great hero Dickens... A splendid novel * Daily Express * A real treat...a joy - a sobering joy, but a joy none the less * Observer * Author Biography: David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.