From the bestelling author of 'e' comes a hilarious and moving novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinary Murray's living life to the full -- and it might just kill him. He's started telling the truth at work. He's borrowed a stack of cash from a man with a gun, a speech impediment and no grasp whatsoever of APR. He's also taking drugs and -- God help him -- he's started dancing. Badly. To trance. And now he's on the run with a human version of Muttley and a teenage girl called Fish. Which is strange, because a few weeks ago Murray didn't even burn the candle at one end. But when his doctors tell him he has only months to live, he gives his boring old self the boot, relaunches a new, improved Murray and falls in love with a passion he didn't know was in him. His old self, of course, would tell him he's digging his own grave. But he'll be needing one of those soon enough anyway, won't he?

2008-06-18 Slow to start but full of laughs

This is the first book I've read by Matt Beaumont and despite a rather slow start it turned into a great read. Murray is diagnosed with testicular cancer and told he may not have long to live, so he throws away his boring old life to embark on a serious of increasingly unbelievable encounters and farcical events. His newly acquired best friend Vince provides the perfect foil in Murray's exploits along with some side splitting one-liners from three year old Bubbles. This is good, light-hearted read for anyone who thinks they would like to be someone else for a day!