# Therapy

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- Book: [Therapy](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/therapy) ([Therapy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge/therapy.md))
- Authors: [David Lodge](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-lodge)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-419-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.