Review: How to cope with redundancy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2012
A light hearted look as to how a family coped with the loss of employment by the bread winner. Having been made redundant myself at 55, I had great sympathy for the family and wanted to know how they coped. I think they had more fun, and really lived `life' the day they left their secure environment and took up narrow boating. The flow of the story pulls you along with the family, whether it is turning a seventy foot boat in a sixty eight foot wide canal or the male leaping ashore to moor the boat, only to realise what he thought was solid ground turned out to be less solid than anticipated. It has drama, comedy, pathos within a travel book that doesn't travel all that far from its origin. The book is different, and for me it was a pleasure to read.