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IT'S JANUARY 1ST and Brian Bilston is convinced that this year his New Year's resolution will change his life. Everyday for a year, he will write a poem. It's quite simple.
Brian's life certainly needs improving. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and indefatigable charity fund raiser to boot; he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son; and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheet and management jargon.
So poetry world be his salvation. But there is an obstacle in the form of Tobie Salt, his arch nemesis at Poetry Club and rival suitor to Liz, Brian's new poetic inspiration.
When Tobie goes missing, just after the announcement of the publication of his first collection, THIS BRIDGE NO HAND SHALL CLEAVE; Brian becomes the number one suspect. If he is to regain his reputation and to have a chance of winning Liz, he must find out what has happened to Tobie before it is too late.
Part tender love story, part murder mystery, part coruscating description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a somebody is the most original novel you will read this or any year.