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Title: Did he lose a wife or daughter himself?
Review: It's not funny, first of all, and how can you call it an HHGG book if it's not funny? But aside from the basic lack of humor, it seems almost like a rebuttal to "So long and thanks for all the fish." It throws Fenchurch (and the retrieved Earth) away like so much used kleenex, and gives Arthur in return a satisfying job making sandwiches... It's as if he (Adams) got upset at himself for having written a book in which Arthur finds love.But then Arthur finds he has a teenage daughter who's feeling lost and unloved, so maybe love has a chance after all? No. [Spoiler alert] The daughter's last action in life is to try to shoot Arthur, and to accidentally kill an innocent bystander, and then, as she realizes she's murdered someone, the world ends -- not just the one, but all possible Earths. Sweet, huh? I wish I hadn't read it.
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