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Mortification : Eight Deaths and Life After Them

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'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I found out through failure, disappointment, mortification. I'm writing it all down as much to remind myself as for anyone else - but now you're here, I'd love you to stick around . . . Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he's died many times. Not just on stage - though he'll tell you about that - but in other ways, too. There's been the death of a childhood dream. The death of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died inside and nearly lost it all . . . Eye-opening, revealing and painfully funny, this is a book about mortification, failure and all the times life doesn't work out as planned. But it also wisely questions whether the things we strive for - recognition, success, the approval of others - are really the things that matter. It's a book about death that reminds us how to live. 'Mark Watson makes the base metal of failure into comedy gold' Adam Kay

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781399607698
  • ISBN-10: 1399607693
  • Publisher: Phoenix
  • Publish Date: April 2025
  • Dimensions: 7.73 x 5.05 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds

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