Sam Avery

5/10 (so-so): I was disappointed with this book after reading glowing reviews on Amazon. It's an attempt at a [a:James Herriot|18062|James Herriot|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1258249907p2/18062.jpg] of parenting. It's certainly very funny at points, but three things let it down. First, no less than five chapters are devoted to conception, which means far too much detail about the author's sex life. Second, Avery uses similies like a trigger-happy machine gunner. Some of them are very funny, but it quickly gets too much. Third, if you removed the toilet humour, the book would be about a quarter of the size. It's probably impossible to write a funny book about parenting without toilet humour, but Avery's children seem to do little except fill their nappies (or, more often, overflow their nappies) and puke everywhere. Like the earlier two complaints, it was just too much, too often.… (plus d'informations)