The short stories didn’t keep my interest and there was no impetus to carry on reading. I took over 2 weeks to read this book because I just couldn’t get into it and it barely raised a smile from me.
This book is a collection of newspaper columns by the author from the 1990s, centred around living arrangements as a newly-single person, and of course a cat. Amidst the social comment and humour, there's a lot of excellent prose: sharp words; descriptive phrases and so on. I partly bought this because I wondered, as a single person myself, what kinds of similarities and differences there were; the price was right as well. There are plenty of examples that can be generalised to other countries i.e. mine, and plenty more that are specific to location in England. The humour travels well.
A thoroughly entertaining selection of UK columnist's musing on British social life. A great bedside dipper. For my full review please go to http://thebooksmithblog.wordpress.com