description: 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 puzzling 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 Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950a lost contentment...
language: English
title: Therapy
titlecomplete: Therapy
genres: Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, British Literature, Comedy, Psychology, Roman, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 3900
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Penguin Books