Owen Croft

eBook, ePUB

A Week in the Life of a Lazy Bastard (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

In the rain-lashed bowels of Manchester, Owen Croft snakes drains for strangers while his own life backs up like a U-bend from hell. At 38, twice-divorced, and bunking with a judgmental goldfish named Regret, Owen's no hero-just a hungover everyman plumbing the depths of mediocrity, one bunged-up toilet at a time.

This ain't your glossy self-help sob story. It's seven savage days in the life of a lazy bastard: Mondays resurrecting like zombies with a grudge, Tuesdays tangoing with pub temptresses who ghost faster than his Tinder matches, Wednesdays humping the week's hernia till it herniates his soul. Thursdays thirst for anything but the truth, Fridays fake freedom with kebab-fueled fanfare, Saturdays slob supreme on cold pizza and Xbox frag-fests, and Sundays roast regrets rarer than redemption.

Owen's voice is a gut-punch of Mancunian grit-crude as a cracked pint glass, funny as a ferret in your Y-fronts, and raw as the alimony notices piling up on his doormat. You'll laugh till your sides ache, cringe at the cock-ups, and maybe-just maybe-eye your own existential clog with a wary squint. Warning: Not inspiration. Just a mirror for the muck. If it makes you weep, order a vindaloo. At least that'll fill the void.

Perfect for fans of Karl Pilkington's rants or Irvine Welsh's underbelly blues.

Published by Indigo Ink Books. Available now. Don't blame Owen if you try this at home-the bailiffs don't do refunds.

Technische Details

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• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.6MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Owen Croft was forged in the relentless drizzle of Manchester's backstreets, where the Irwell murmurs secrets to the stone warehouses and the city's heartbeat thumps like a faulty piston. Born and raised amid the red-brick sprawl of the North, this unassuming bloke traded the roar of Friday night lock-ins for the hush of forgotten moors, where he could finally hear his own thoughts without the din of the world crashing in.

By day, Owen's a ghost in the machinetinkering with words in a creaky attic studio overlooking the Pennines, far from the pixelated frenzy of social scrolls and siren calls. He's the sort who brews a pot of builder's tea strong enough to strip paint, cracks open a dog-eared Philip K. Dick or Raymond Chandler, and lets the pages pull him into alternate realities where Manchester's canals twist into wormholes or its cobbled alleys hide syndicate shadows. Writing, for him, is less a craft than a quiet rebellion: a way to wrestle the chaos of cyber-noir heists, gene-spliced grudges, and temporal double-crosses onto the page, all laced with that wry, rain-soaked Northern grit.

When he's not chasing plot twists through the ether, you'll find Owen hiking the wild fringes of the Peak District, notebook in hand, scribbling fragments inspired by the wind-whipped heather or a sudden squall. For Owen Croft, the best stories aren't told; they're unearthed, one sodden boot-print at a time. Escape with him. The world's mad enough as it is.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indigo Ink Books
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232510695
• Artikelnr.: 75847051