Therapy

By all appearances Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True he is almost bald and his nickname in Tubby but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in he has an exclusive house in Rummridge a state-of-the-art car a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy and his many therapists can't deliver is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his TV show that's bugging him or even the persistent pain in his knee; it's this deeper nameless unease. Is it a spiritual crisis or just one of the midlife variety?<p>Tubby's quest for the source of it will lead into an obsession with Kierkegaard brushes with the police gossip-column notoriety and strange beds and bedrooms worldwide.</p>