Sod's Law: Why Life Always Falls Butter Side Down Main Edition

Why does it always rain on me? This is a question many of us have asked ourselves at one time or another, as we wag our sorry, sodden heads and wonder how we managed to leave our umbrella in the pub. Sod’s Law goes some way to providing an answer.

To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod’s Law says: you are not alone.

Sam Leith tells the hilarious – and painful – stories of the unsinkable boat that sunk, the unbeatable horse that lost, and the fireproof theatre that burned to the ground. Sod’s Law demonstrates that the entire universe is actually set up to ensure your toast always fall butter side down – and, what’s more, that it lands precisely where the cat has shed hair all over the carpet.

In this age of doubt, fewer and fewer of us are able to believe that a higher power takes an interest in our fate. This book will reassures us that it does – and that that higher power is hell bent on buggering things up. Only by laughing heartlessly at the misfortunes of others can we cheer ourselves up. Sod’s Law enables us to do just that.

HUMOUR

£7.99

ww.atlantic-books.co.uk