Instructions for Living Someone Else's Life

Author(s): Mil Millington

Fiction

Chris is 25. He has a job in advertising he despises - despite being naturally brilliant at creating shamelessly successful campaigns - an 'artistic' girlfriend, and his two best mates from university, who spend a lot of time playing pool, drinking Grolsch and quoting lines from Robocop at each other. But Chris's life is about to change. The eighties are coming to an end and he must take decisive action if he is to fulfil what he suspects is his true potential. So, after pre-emptively celebrating the fact he is about to hand in his resignation, Chris goes to bed drunk in 1988 but very unexpectedly wakes up in 2006, with an unbelievable hangover, a long-suffering (and worryingly 'old'-looking) stranger for a wife, a life that hasn't turned out the way he had hoped for at all, and an unnerving amount of new body hair...

General Information

  • : 9780753826270
  • : Orion Publishing Co
  • : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : 0.188
  • : 23 July 2009
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Mil Millington
  • : Paperback
  • : 909
  • : 272
  • : Modern fiction

More About The Product

With his Guardian columns, his hugely popular website and his frequent festival and radio appearances Mil Millington is one of the best-loved comic writers in the UK. He writes about relationships with insight and wit, and has been compared to Helen Fielding, Nick Hornby and Eddie Izzard. 'With his tear-inducing humour, Millington [taps] into the zeitgeist' Vogue 'Insightful and wickedly funny' Heat

Mil Millington is the creator of the cult website www.thingsmygirlfriendandIhavearguedabout.com and co-founder of www.theweekly.co.uk. He writes for various newspapers and magazines and was named by the Guardian as one of the top five debut novelists of 2002. Mil lives in the West Midlands with his girlfriend and their two children.