A brilliant comic novel about marriage, ex-girlfriends, 'performance anxiety', and what it takes to make happily ever after last beyond the honeymoon. William Walker has just married Isabel, the girl of his dreams. But William has a knack for messing up the happiest of situations. Increasingly beset, increasingly unlucky and increasingly hilarious, William battles his way through a series of comic disasters that threaten to destroy his relationship and reduce him to a state of sad bachelorhood - a fate, he soon realises, worse than death.