THE BIRDICT

Greg and Zoe are thoroughly likeable characters and great as a couple. While elements of the plot require some suspension of belief, it just doesn’t matter because this is pure entertainment.

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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO...​​

It’s hard to find lighthearted humour such as this. I’d compare it in tone at least to Nick Hornby and Mike Gayle.

THE BLURB

Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit.

Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of beer and chicken curry.

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 £50,000 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.