✯✯✯✯ Review by Astrid Galactic
After the heavy tome with tiny words that forced me to come to terms with my aging eyes, this was the perfect breather. How Not To Die Alone by Richard Roper was the perfect breath of fresh air. The reading is very accessible, fun and a bit quirky which always appeals to me.
After a bit of mistaken communication during a job interview, Andrew believes he must continue to live an outside life of tending to his seemingly ideal nuclear family with a wife and two kids. One unintended simple lie turns into a whole mountain of lies which naturally complicates his otherwise simple life. Things become increasingly more complex when a boss insists that all the employees host in-home dinner parties as well as the lies getting in the way of a blooming romance that takes place with a new hire.
As a loner, leading character Andrew, leans towards being very empathetic with all the lost souls whose lives he needs to unravel after they die with no next of kin or other acquaintances known of. His job involves the closing out of the residence and estates of the deceased to locate funds for burials and to contact their loved ones. Being loners themselves, that's often difficult. As a fellow loner, Andrew usually takes his job the next level by seeing them off with some sort of dignity beyond what is required of his job which makes for some rather interesting circumstances.
Though Andrew appears to be an abnormal loner in his real, everyday dull life, I believe we all have a bit of Andrew in us. A fun modern British comedy that will open your eyes to those we too often don't see before they are gone.
*It should be noted that How Not to Die Alone appears to have been the working title for this book which was officially released under the title of Something to Live For.
(ARC)
Fiction
Contemporary
0525539883 (ISBN13: 9780525539889)
Hardcover 336 pages
Published May 28th 2019 by G.P. Putnam's Sons
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