The Man Who Forgot His Wife (39 page)

I would also very much like to thank David Fitzpatrick, who himself experienced an amnesia similar to the fugue at the beginning of this book, and was kind enough to tell me all about his life since that day. For technical and legal advice I would like to thank Alex Carruthers and Tony Garment, who allowed me to put away that copy of
Divorce for Dummies
that was so worrying my mother.

Thanks are also due to the countless other friends and relations whose faulty memories tell them that it was they who came up with all those off-hand jokes and one-liners that seem to have found their way into my book. My children, Freddie and Lily, have been a wonderful source of encouragement and enthusiasm. Lily in particular was full of elaborate suggestions about the possible wording of the dedication. But most of all, it goes without saying that a book about a marriage owes an enormous amount to my wife of twenty years.

All those times I seemed to forget things, Jackie; that was just me researching this novel. Thank you. x

About the Author

John O’Farrell
is the author of three bestselling novels:
The Best a Man Can Get
,
This Is Your Life
and
May Contain Nuts
. His non-fiction includes the political memoir
Things Can Only Get Better
and
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
which won the best Comedy History book at the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

As an award-winning comedy scriptwriter his name flashed passed the end of such productions as
Spitting Image, Murder Most Horrid, Chicken Run
and a few shows he’d rather forget. He is the founder of the satirical website
NewsBiscuit
and can occasionally be spotted on such TV shows as
Grumpy Old Men
,
The Review Show
and
Have I Got News for You
.

www.twitter.com/@mrjohnofarrell

Also by John O’Farrell

Non-Fiction

Things Can Only Get Better

Global Village Idiot

I Blame the Scapegoats

I Have a Bream

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain

Fiction

The Best a Man Can Get

This Is Your Life

May Contain Nuts

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