Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time

Funny But Oh So True Dominic Utton has hit on a winning novel with Martin Harbottleâ??s Appreciation of Time, this novel is based up on the email of Daniel who has to commute in from Oxford to London on a â??premier-westwardâ?? service and decides to email the Chief Executive every time his service is late. This is the novel that all commuters want to write about their terrible, and unfortunately it is often commute in to work on our great train network. How often have we spoken to customer services and just wanted to cry in despair at their lack of service or care. This is a novel for those who have often heard the train announcer come out with the â??Such and Such rail would like to apologise for the .... (late/cancelation) of the service to/from ... I have heard that announcement that often that I now have loyalty cards for a large number of coffee shops to pass the time as I wait â?? in hope â?? for the next service. Dan our protagonist emails Martin Harbottle with a well written email equating to the length of time that the delay or cancelation has taken out of his day. Those minutes that we will never get back, he makes sure his email is the length of the delay. These musings are often funny incisive and speaking for all of us. At the same time Dan who works as a tabloid journalist on a Sunday red top that is in trouble with the courts and the police for some of their underhand methods. He and his wife a nurse who has just given birth are living in the commuter belt so that they can make their way on to the housing chain. The only ***** in his armour is the commute the train is either late or cancelled and never is a customer told the reason. Using his journalist tactics he finds the MDâ??s email and hence begins a long email correspondence bring all manor of subjects for discussion. This is a funny book if read on your daily commute will mean there will be quite a few train company CEOs awaiting your email for your late arrival in our capital and elsewhere. Oh train company bosses you should read this it might even make you smile instead of just taking our cash and giving us poor service. Great book, great read for the commuter!show more