David Lodge's Therapy

[pieter pannevis]

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a
platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason
than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive
behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his unidentified knee pain or his
equally inexplicable mid-life angst.
As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he
embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to
Beverley Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South
London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment ...

Still available at 7.99 Pounds in Britain at Pinguin
as always...
...Ultreya to you all and good health
pieter and trigo from holland
mailto:p.pannevisachello.nl