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Turning Forty (2013)

by Mike Gayle(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0340918535 (ISBN13: 9780340918531)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

review 1: I started reading this straight off the back of the sequel Turning Thirty. In the intervening ten years lots has changed for Matt Beckford. This book made me laugh, cry and physically sigh with how much more can happen to this guy? I enjoyed reading a book with a setting I knew well, Birmingham and the surrounding areas. The last months before Matt turns forty is rocky journey with lots of ups and downs that sees him leaning on those closest to him but what's most surprising is who's he needs most when things finally start looking up.
review 2: I have downgraded this from 3* to 2* on reflection, as I feel that actually nothing happened in it. All the plots that built up (moving house, his marriage break down, new relationships with characters) were all trashed ... moreby the end and all of the may as well have not happened. However obviously something kept me reading so I have left the rating as 2* instead of 1*. Perhaps I would have had a better understanding if I had read Turning Thirty before this. less

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