Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who?s realised that he?s been a woman all along ?

Compiled here for the first time is a whole year?s worth of Roddy Doyle?s hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man ? funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered ? trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees don?t give out first).

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.