Making Divorce Work: In 9 Easy Steps

An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the new hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.‘I dont feel like I have lost a wife but that I have gained a friend. I would never have met Geoff if Marion hadnt left me.’‘Marion and Geoff’ was one of the most-loved and most-acclaimed BBC comedies of recent years. Rob Brydon wrote and starred as cuckolded Welsh cabbie Keith Barret recording a hopelessly optimistic video diary about his life as a divorcee. It was a heartbreaking show darkly comic and brilliantly written. The series won Best Drama at the South Bank Awards and Rob Brydon won a British Comedy Award for his performance as Keith.In summer 2004 Brydon took his character Keith Barret to the Edinburgh Festival with a show (or rather a talk or therapy session) entitled ‘Making Divorce Work’ which drew on all of Keiths experience as a divorcee. It was a sell-out and the Daily Telegraph declared it More outright hilarious than the TV series.Now after a highly successful series The Keith Barret Show Keith Barret has settled down and written an indispensable self-help guide to surviving relationship break-ups. In Making Divorce Work Barret offers advice for the broken-hearted on everything from getting access to the kids (‘my little smashers’) to dating again. It is a brilliant parody of the self-help genre (although Barret has written it with all sincerity) and an intimate portrait of Keith Barret; our favourite eternal optimist.