The Giles Wareing Haters' Club

Giles Wareing has started telling people heΓÇÖs forty, even though heΓÇÖs actually thirty-nine years and eleven months. ItΓÇÖs supposed to help him conquer the fear, but in fact he has only given the fear a four-week head start. Giles is a freelance writer of amusing articles for a national newspaper. One day, feeling particularly fortyish, he happens to type ΓÇÿGiles Wareing+unfunnyΓÇÖ into a search engine. And thatΓÇÖs when he discovers the thread. The thread is called ΓÇÿThe Giles Wareing HatersΓÇÖ ClubΓÇÖ, and is entirely devoted to holding everything he has ever written up to excoriating criticism and ridicule. As Giles becomes obsessed with the thread, with tracking down its participants, his angst begins to focus on one particularly scornful contributor, and it soon becomes clear that things are going really quite badly wrong . . . A tragedy, a farce and a detective story, The Giles Wareing HatersΓÇÖ Club is an absorbing, hilarious and razor-sharp look at the modern male in all his dysfunctional glory. ΓÇÿEntertaining and unexpectedly poignantΓÇÖ Times Literary Supplement ΓÇÿVery funny . . .Cringe comedy at its bestΓÇÖ GQ ΓÇÿAn acerbically dry and hilarious taleΓÇÖ InStyle