Good fun and very relatable. Kind of like a middle-aged gay man take on Eat, Pray, Love? Arthur Less stumbles through his tragicomedy of a life, seeing only the tragedy and viewing everything that ever goes wrong as yet another catastrophe to add to the pile of them that is his life. Except his life is actually pretty great in a lot of ways and he definitely takes himself waaay too seriously. So essentially, he goes on a trip around the world and slowly manages to extract his head at least part way from his arse. I chuckled most of the way through it and there were some hilarious moments - I especially enjoyed Arthur's failed attempts at German - as well as the more serious reflecting on the past, heartbreak and fear of getting old.

The writing was a little bit annoying and overly cheesy in places. It became really obvious when something was about to go well for Less, because there would be a whole load of fretting about how terrible it was going to be.... whereas when something bad happened it was always suddenly dropped on us without preamble. The ending also felt rushed - I got very near the end and there were still several loose ends to be explained, and there was no sign of the happy ending that by this point I had come to expect. It was all squeezed in, but it almost felt like an afterthought tacked onto the end of the book to tie it all up properly, rather than what the entire story had been leading up to.