MortificationMark 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

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describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona

They too have a choice

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of what happens when things go wrong and how hard it is to make them right

he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all - an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules

But with her daughter gone

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about a hare called Hattie - written by bestselling poet Pam Ayres and illustrated by award-winning artist Nicola O'Byrne