Fat, Forty, and Fired

A "touching and laugh-out-loud funny" memoir about a suddenly unemployed CEO, his family, and the things he discovered when his job disappeared (Booklist).

 

As a stressed husband and father of four small children under the age of eight, Nigel Marsh was enslaved to his mortgage, recuperating from an embarrassing surgery, and suddenly fired from his corporate career. Deciding to venture off the treadmill in search of a more meaningful and balanced existence, Marsh tackled the art of hands-on parenting while simultaneously training for an ocean swimming race and coming to terms with his alcoholism. Touching on topics ranging from marital sex (or lack thereof), dieting, and parenthood to work, love, football, religion, self-help books, and sharks, this "hilarious and inspiring" international bestseller is "Homer Simpson meets Anthony Robbins . . . essential reading for anyone whose life has ever hit a roadblock" (Bob Rosner, bestselling author of Working Wounded)æ"

 

"Both witty and helpful . . . If there is any flaw to this book, it is that Marsh repeatedly makes the reader laugh out loud and want to read paragraphs at length to any nearby willing listener." —Shelf Awareness 

"Marsh's epiphanies during his hiatus include the realization that he is fat, but more poignantly, that he is an alcoholic . . . The strength of the memoir lies in the intimate and often humorous moments he shares as he reconnects with his wife and four children." —Publishers Weekly

 

"An extremely funny and touching account of how someone can use humor and optimism to put adversity into perspective . . . a thoroughly enjoyable read." —Paul Wilson, author of The Little Book of Calm