Mortification

Watson, Mark

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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 his innocence. The death of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died inside. 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.

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Publish Date: 16/01/2025
ISBN: 9781399607698 Category: Tags: ,

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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

Additional information

Weight 228 g
Dimensions 196 × 128 × 22 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

245

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

792.7028092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K