- Title:
- Fat Chance
- By:
- Nick Spalding
- Pages:
- 288
- Rating:
- 4
Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go.
Zoe was a stunner in her high school days, but the intervening decades have added seventy pounds, and removed most of her self-esteem.
Greg’s rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless beers and fast food.
When Elise, a radio DJ and Zoe’s best friend, tells them about a new competition, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn their lives around. Fat Chance will pit six hefty couples against one another to see who can collectively lose the most weight and walk away with a large cash prize.
So begins six months of abject misery, tears, and frustration—that just might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to them—in another laugh-out-loud look at the way we live now from bestselling author Nick Spalding.
I’m a bit of a sucker for soppy stories and, despite eating like a horse and only gaining a few pounds in the last decade, something in this cleverly-written, very British work kept me reading. I chortled and chuckled my way through the amusing bits, had an awww moment in the mirror, and came away at the end with a very satisfied, content feeling a book hasn’t given me for a little while.