I got this book, like many people I expect, based on the authors work as a comedian. In addition, it also has a tagline by Richard Osman whom I really enjoy as a personality (though I have yet to read his books) and the other taglines talk about how funny this book is. Given this I started reading it to be a lighthearted contrast to my other books in progress which are dystopian and sad, somehow this comedy book proved to be more depressing than any of the others, 1984 was about as lighthearted as this book. It's arguably a victim of its own author's career and the taglines, if I was expecting a sad depressing slice of life look at a middle-aged man going through a crisis I think I would have enjoyed it, but when you expect something funny and it's the opposite it's hard to appreciate. It's not dark humour either, I love dark humour and laugh at it, this is just straight up sad.
 
It is a nicely written story though, the plot itself is well structured and the characters feel real, not very nice people for the most part, but real none the less. It lacks a resolution and keeps it quite open ended; I would have rather had a few more chapters to follow what happens next but I get why the story ended where it did and can appreciate it.
 
I can't really say I’d recommend this book, it's fine, but doesn't excel in any particular area. What I would say though is when picking this up be in the mindset for a reflective, sad read where you will feel frustration and anger more than anything else, if that's what you're after I can see this getting 4 stars, but when it's so mis-advertised it gets dragged down unfortunately.