You Couldn’t make it up….but I did!

Once there was a man called Dave who had a problem. It sounds like a conventional idea for a story, but when Patrick Haylock writes a novel about it there is very little conventional about it. Dave has a strange outlook on life in this surreal and very funny book about a man just trying to find the money to pay back a work syndicate after he disobeyed their instructions and followed his horoscope that black cats would be lucky.

The description of the book says he meets “an intriguing hotchpotch of larger-than-life characters”, which is an understatement. The characters in this novel of a frantic few days of Dave’s life surely defy description, even though Dave does his best. His parents are memorable, a vicar has an outrageous turn of phrase, and his two companions on a surreal journey combine acceptance of every odd situations with their own memorable contributions.

This is a funny, surreal, and fast-paced book that is always unexpected, and never lingers long over the improbable. Memorable for the right reasons, I was certainly happy to have had the opportunity to read this book.

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