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Title: Funny, painful and above all very recognizable
Review: Rob Fleming is in his thirties and the owner of an obscure music shop with 2 nerdy employees somewhere in north London. When his girlfriend Laura leaves him for the neighbour upstairs he looks back on his life, and especially on (the endings of) his relationships: what did he want from the relationships, when and why did things go wrong, how did or didn't he react. When Laura and Rob get back together, we follow the re-start of their relationship.The book is terribly funny, but also terribly recognizable. I bet most people of Rob's age will recognize at least part of Rob's behaviour as being very similar to how they react in such situations. Thus the book also works as a mirror that leads the readers to reflect on their own way to cope with one of the most important aspects of life: the way in which they interact with other people.
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