It Gets Worse: Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury

Book of the Week: The Idler

It Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezards rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nicks fortunes have not improved. At home in the Hovel, his bachelor existence makes a further descent into chaos, yet the misadventures are faced with sardonic wit, pathos and something like dissident wisdom.