“Hilarious reading ... it's hard not to like him”. -- Dogmatika.com
Meet
Nathaniel Water. You’ll either love him or hate him, and he’s not too sure what
he thinks of himself. A young artist with a complicated love life, a character
you certainly won’t forget once you’ve got to know him. Try to figure out what
makes him tick.
While his career is taking off, his love life descends
into an ever-deepening mess. First he proposes marriage to his beautiful Slovak
girlfriend, Jelena, with whom he fights constantly. But they split up almost as
soon as they’re engaged. He then meets Harriet, Jelena's opposite, and marries
her instead. But that’s not the end of it. Both women become pregnant at
different stages, he leaves each of them at least once, and deserts both when
they most need him. This wryly comic novel reveals the dangers of celebrity, and
some complicated problems you'll enjoy seeing Nathaniel Water try to work
out.
From the reviews of the first edition:
'A page turner.’ --
Matthew Collings
'A sort of absurdist, amoral fable ... There is
something exquisitely tragic about Water's life, a repetitive parade of posh
restaurants, press views and disinterested flings. Ultimately, he's a tad boring
- not something you could say about the novel he stars in.'
Richard Godwin,
Literary Review
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