How To Save A Marriage (first three chapters)

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This novel is a satirical journey through the modern world and a social commentary of one man’s battle through it – from Homer Simpson to Colin Firth (sort of thing). This is about Henry Bowen’s middle-aged self-awakening set against a backdrop of the stresses of modern working and living, poking fun at popular culture along the way and dotted with humour and sorrow. Henry Bowen is an affable, irreverent, self-depreciating, corpulent family man drifting through a mid-life crisis of his own making. His complacency about his health, his marriage and his City career is soon shattered by a series of humiliating events. These events conspire to induce him to change his indulgent ways. Over the coming weeks and months, he sets about cleaning himself up and winning back his wife.

Maria, Henry’s long suffering wife, is understandably fed-up with his behaviour and has transferred all her attentions to their children, Toby and Eliza, and, Henry suspects, to the piano teacher, ‘the Prick’ a.k.a. Mr Richard Wickham. The story follows Henry’s experiences of dieting, abstinence, challenges to his self-worth and his quest to win back Maria’s affections.

“Interesting idea with the current obsession with diets, some very funny moments.”
Rebecca Wait (Author of ‘The View on the Way Down’).

“You write really well. This is very amusing. Funny opener with the doctor. Henry comes across well and you can sympathise with him and you want him to succeed.”
Winchester Writers’ Feedback.

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Henry Bowen sat expectantly on the consulting couch swinging his legs like a child waiting to be chastised.
“I warned you, didn’t I? You have fallen into a significant risk category called metabolic syndrome consisting of a number of factors that would suggest susceptibility towards cardiovascular disease; these are hyper tension, high blood cholesterol, sleep apnea and above average triglyceride levels combined with hyperlipidemia. Furthermore, your prthrombotic state accelerates cardiovascular risk.”
That’s easy for you to say, doctor! thought Henry. Then he wondered if the doctor had actually called him, euphemistically, a fat drunken slob: a fatso.
The doctor shook his head, sighed and began scribbling furiously on his prescription pad as though every second counted.

Day 0, Thursday evening, 7th September. Weight = 19st 8lbs
Henry’s taxi was held up in traffic on Waterloo bridge. The last time he had been home late his long-suffering wife had mislaid her sense of humour. By the time his train had arrived at its destination, it was passed eleven with no taxis available until gone midnight. He’d had to phone his wife, slurring his words. She had parked up, thrown open the car door and marched towards him. The kids were in their pyjamas in the back of the car. He thought how beautiful she was then with her close set blue-grey eyes flashing impulsively, her high cheekbones redolent of a Teutonic heroine and her russet hair shining under the streetlamps.
Stupidly, he had smiled. She scowled at him.
“Maria, I’m really sorry, I…” he’d hiccupped.

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Novel (First Three Chapters)
Genre

Humorous Social Commentary, Irreverent Self-Awakening, Diet

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