William Walker’s First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story

William Walker’s First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story
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For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding true love only to discover that happy endings are just the beginning comes this brilliantly comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, ‘performance anxiety’, and what it takes to make happily ever last beyond the honeymoon.William Walker has just married Isabel, the girl of his dreams. The happy couple live in a small flat in north London while William labours away at his magazine job, revelling in his recent promotion from a column for which he was required to taste different brands of cat food to more dignified reportage. So far, so perfect.But William has a Bridget Jones-ish knack for messing up the happiest of situations – he can’t help shouting at the obnoxiously precocious work experience girl and has an embarrassing tendency to forget names of women he has previously tried to sleep with. It doesn’t help that Isabel’s creepy best friend Alex is very obviously in love with her. Nor that Saskia, a vixen-ish old flame of William’s, has just moved in downstairs. As Alex slithers his way into Isabel’s heart, Saskia seems intent on resuming relations with William – or at least giving Isabel that impression.Increasingly beset, increasingly unlucky and increasingly hilarious, William battles his way through a series of comic disasters that threaten to destroy his relationship and reduce him to a state of sad bachelorhood – a fate, he soon realises, worse than death.

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Matt Rudd. William Walker’s First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story

Matt Rudd. William Walker’s. First Year of. Marriage. A Horror Story

Dedication

Contents

MAY

Sunday 1 May

THE FOUR TESTS OF A BRIDEGROOM

THE POST-MORTEM

Why did Watzerface storm out?

Monday 2 May

Tuesday 3 May

Why I married Isabel

Friday 20 May

Saturday 21 May

STUFF I WANTED AND DIDN’T GET

STUFF SHE WANTED AND DID GET

Monday 23 May

Favourite mother-in-law joke

Second favourite mother-in-law joke

Tuesday 24 May

The trouble with asking Johnson or Andy anything about women

Wednesday 25 May

Thursday 26 May

Friday 27 May

Johnson’s post-pee dribble trick

Saturday 28 May

WHY BRITISH MEN DON’T NATTER ON THE WHOLE TIME

Monday 30 May

The speed-date girls I could have ended up with

JUNE

Wednesday 1 June. REASONS TO BE HAPPY

REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY

Thursday 2 June. REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY (REVISED)

THE THREE DIFFERENT USES OF ‘DARLING’

Friday 3 June

REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY (RE-REVISED)

Saturday 4 June

The engagement ring

Sunday 5 June

THREE INTERESTING THINGS I LEARNT ABOUT MOROCCO WHILE SOMEONE HIT ON MY WIFE

Monday 6 June

Tuesday 7 June

Thursday 9 June

Saturday 11 June

The walk

The wedding photos

The lunch

Monday 13 June

Wednesday 15 June

Thursday 16 June

Friday 17 June

Saturday 18 June

The service

The meal

The speeches

The first dance

Sunday 19 June

Monday 20 June

How Saskia destroyed my last-but-one relationship

Tuesday 21 June

Saturday 25 June

Sunday 26 June

Monday 27 June

Tuesday 28 June

Wednesday 29 June

Thursday 30 June

JULY

Friday 1 July

SOME OF THE THINGS I NOW KNOW ABOUT RUDOLF NUREYEV

Saturday 2 July

Monday 4 July

Frustration one

Frustration two

Frustration three

Tuesday 5 July

Wednesday 6 July

Thursday 7 July

Friday 8 July

FIVE QUICK AND EASY STEPS BACK TO BACHELORHOOD

Saturday 9 July

Sunday 10 July

THINGS I DON’T WANT TO BE DOING WHEN I’M 50

Monday 11 July

RECIPE FOR MARMITE TOAST

Tuesday 12 July

Wednesday 13 July

Thursday 14 July

Friday 15 July

Saturday 16 July

The wedding

The service

The meal

The speeches

The first dance

Sunday 17 July

Tuesday 19 July

Wednesday 20 July

Thursday 21 July

Friday 22 July

The fake injury trick

Monday 25 July

Tuesday 26 July

Wednesday 27 July

Thursday 28 July

Friday 29 July

Saturday 30 July

Sunday 31 July

AUGUST

Monday 1 August. REASONS TO BE HAPPY

REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY

Wednesday 3 August

Thursday 4 August

Friday 5 August

Monday 8 August

Tuesday 9 August

Wednesday 10 August

Saturday 13 August

Monday 15 August

Tuesday 16 August

Wednesday 17 August

Thursday 18 August

Friday 19 August

Saturday 20 August

Monday 22 August

Wednesday 24 August

Sunday 28 August

Tuesday 30 August

Wednesday 31 August

SEPTEMBER

Thursday 1 September

THINGS I CAN’T DO NOW BUT COULD HAVE DONE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER

THINGS I CAN DO NOW BUT COULDN’T WHEN I WAS YOUNGER

Friday 2 September

Saturday 3 September

Monday 5 September

Tuesday 6 September

Wednesday 7 September

Thursday 8 September

Friday 9 September

Saturday 10 September

Monday 12 September

Tuesday 13 September

Wednesday 14 September

Thursday 15 September

Friday 16 September

Saturday 17 September

Monday 19 September

Tuesday 20 September

Wednesday 21 September

Thursday 22 September

Friday 23 September

Saturday 24 September

Monday 26 September

Tuesday 27 September

Thursday 29 September

Friday 30 September

OCTOBER

Saturday 1 October

Sunday 2 October

Wednesday 5 October

The art of the man-hug

Thursday 6 October

Friday 7 October

Sunday 9 October

Monday 10 October

Wednesday 12 October

How I ended up in a police cell in Brixton

Thursday 13 October

Friday 14 October

FOUR FACTS ABOUT SNEEZING I LEARNT WHEN TOO ILL TO WORK

Saturday 15 October

Monday 17 October

Wednesday 19 October

Thursday 20 October

Saturday 22 October

Tuesday 25 October

Wednesday 26 October

Friday 28 October

Saturday 29 October

Monday 31 October

NOVEMBER

Tuesday 1 November

Wednesday 2 November

Thursday 3 November

Friday 4 November

Saturday 5 November

WHY ISABEL IS BEING UNREASONABLE: A MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS

Sunday 6 November

Monday 7 November

Tuesday 8 November

Wednesday 9 November

Thursday 10 November

Friday 11 November

Monday 14 November

Tuesday 15 November

Wednesday 16 November

Thursday 17 November

Friday 18 November

Saturday 19 November

Monday 21 November

Tuesday 22 November

Wednesday 23 November

Thursday 24 November

Friday 25 November

Saturday 26 November

Sunday 27 November

Monday 28 November

Tuesday 29 November

Wednesday 30 November

DECEMBER

Thursday 1 December

Friday 2 December

Sunday 4 December

Monday 5 December

THE ONLY TWO STRATEGIES FOR DUMPING GIRLFRIENDS, NEITHER OF WHICH IS PREFERABLE. By email/letter (not hand-delivered, too risky)

In person

Tuesday 6 December

Wednesday 7 December

Thursday 8 December

Friday 9 December

Saturday 10 December

Monday 12 December

Wednesday 14 December

Saturday 17 December

Sunday 18 December

Monday 19 December

Tuesday 20 December

Thursday 22 December

WHAT WOMEN WANT

WHAT WOMEN DON’T WANT

Saturday 24 December

Sunday 25 December

Rubbish Christmas, part one

Rubbish Christmas, part two

Rubbish Christmas, part three

Rubbish Christmas, part four

Monday 26 December

Wednesday 28 December

Saturday 31 December

JANUARY

Sunday 1 January

Monday 2 January

Tuesday 3 January

Wednesday 4 January

Thursday 5 January

Friday 6 January

Saturday 7 January

Monday 9 January

Tuesday 10 January

THREE EXAMPLES OF LOW-LEVEL BICKERING IN ONE DAY

Wednesday 11 January

Saturday 14 January

Tuesday 17 January

Thursday 19 January

Friday 20 January

Saturday 21 January

Sunday 22 January

Monday 23 January

Wednesday 25 January

Thursday 26 January

Saturday 28 January

Sunday 29 January

Monday 30 January

Tuesday 31 January

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 1 February

Thursday 2 February

Friday 3 February

Monday 6 February

Wednesday 8 February

Thursday 9 February

Saturday 11 February

UPDATED LIST OF THINGS I SWORE I’D NEVER DO BUT THEN DID ANYWAY

Tuesday 14 February

Wednesday 15 February

Thursday 16 February

Saturday 18 February

RULES OF THE DOGHOUSE

Sunday 19 February

Monday 20 February

Tuesday 21 February

Wednesday 22 February

Thursday 23 February

Saturday 25 February

Reason one

Reason two

Reason three

Sunday 26 February

Wednesday 29 February

MARCH

Thursday 1 March. REASONS TO BE UNHAPPY

REASONS TO BE HAPPY

Friday 2 March

Saturday 3 March

Sunday 4 March

Monday 5 March

Tuesday 6 March

Thursday 8 March

Friday 9 March

Saturday 10 March

Sunday 11 March

Monday 12 March

Tuesday 13 March

Wednesday 14 March

Thursday 15 March

Friday 16 March

Saturday 17 March

Sunday 18 March

Monday 19 March

Tuesday 20 March

Wednesday 21 March

Thursday 22 March

Friday 23 March

Saturday 24 March. OPERATION PYTHON. Stage one: secure suitable spy hardware

Tuesday 27 March

Wednesday 28 March. OPERATION PYTHON. Stage two: sneak up on target, interrogate

Thursday 29 March. OPERATION PYTHON. Revised stage two: text target, arrange. meeting, interrogate

Saturday 31 March

THREE ALL-TIME ARSEHOLES IN MY LIFE (UNTIL NOW)

APRIL

Monday 2 April

OPERATION PROBE

OPERATION PROBE

Wednesday 4 April

Friday 6 April

Saturday 7 April

Sunday 8 April

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS LEADING TO MY SECOND-EVER NIGHT IN A PRISON CELL

Monday 9 April

Wednesday 11 April

THINGS MEN DO THAT WOMEN DON’T KNOW ABOUT WHEN THEY’RE ON THEIR OWN IN A HOUSE (APART FROM THE OBVIOUS)

Thursday 12 April

Friday 13 April

Saturday 14 April

Sunday 15 April

Monday 16 April

Tuesday 17 April

Wednesday 18 April

Friday 20 April

Saturday 21 April

Sunday 22 April

Monday 23 April

Tuesday 24 April

Wednesday 25 April

Thursday 26 April

STUPID MAN DIES BEING STUPID IN MOUNTAINS

Friday 27 April

Saturday 28 April

Monday 30 April

Read On

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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To Harriet

Dedication

.....

Toastie-maker: ‘Isn’t that a pointless gadget?’ ‘No, every kitchen needs one.’

Duvets: ‘But darling, we’ve got two already.’ ‘Does that include the one with the candle burn from when you were trying to impress Saskia in your horrible Acton bedsit? When you lit a hundred tea lights and she thought you were terribly sophisticated and it was all perfect until the bed caught fire? I can’t believe you told me that. I want that duvet thrown out. It’s horrid.’

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