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Bitter Experience Has Taught Me
About this book
In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not go into here. Since then he has been obliged to muster whatever scant internal resources he has - and to pay child support - while maintaining an entirely essential wine habit. From being the adult father in a household with three children he has had to relearn the art of being just one member of a shared home, as if he was a student all over again.
His housemates have included his great friend Razors, the psychopath with a heart of gold, and Laurie Penny, the brilliant feminist journalist and campaigner who still would prefer not to empty the bins.
He hopes this account of his adventures and misadventures in love, alcohol and games of Night Cricket played against the wall of the local church will be a comfort and an inspiration to all feckless male dolts in similar positions. And an Awful Warning for those who are, as yet, not.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue: The Hovel: The Hovel So, like a school term, new life begins in September.
- 1: It’s really beginning to look as though I have survived the winter.
- 2: It is about midnight on a Saturday.
- 3: To the dentist.
- 4: New Year both is, and is not, a difficult time of year for those of us of an unusually feckless disposition.
- 5: A rather excited message on the voicemail from John Moore, ex-Jesus and Mary Chain and Black Box Recorder, who tells me to call him urgently.
- 6: I stumble downstairs on a muggy, sultry morning to find, miles from his natural habitat, an adult bull walrus asleep on my sofa.
- 7: Life in the Hovel continues to be mind-expanding.
- 8: A Monday afternoon, and I am wondering whether it was wise of me to invite the editor of the Statesman to dinner at the Hovel
- Author’s Note and Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright