He lives as a journalist but does the least amount of work, takes lots of drugs and seeps with a few women.

It was fortunate that Thomas and Jane Carlyle married one another, said Lord Tennyson, since any other arrangement would have made four people unhappy, not just two. The sense of belonging that we did not experience in childhood (and therefore could not recreate in our adult lives) we finally achieved in one another’s company – opening us up to finding it with others in the outside world. Furthermore, if those who decide the allocations of the real and unreal are cruel, mad or colossally wrong, what then? The problem with this story is Puppy as a character is unlikeable and for all his problems, has only himself to blame. Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal - handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised - has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society.There's only one person who looks south Asian (both Nirpal's parents came from Indian Punjab and settled in west London). Puppy's day begins with smoking cigarettes and either hanging with his rich friends and taking drugs, or hanging with his loser friends and drinking alcohol. My dad found himself married to a pregnant stranger, having abandoned the woman he loved and the child she carried, and now mourning the loss of his own father who had only months before, forced him into all of this. I know what he got in his A-levels, how he feels about going up ladders, when he dumped his girlfriend, how he paid for the flowers he gave her when they got back together, whether he has paid for sex, how often he farts, how he behaved at his wedding and what his penis looks like in the bath (four As, terrified, her birthday, her credit card, yes, almost constantly, quite badly and a periscope, respectively).

She doesn't seem that interesting to be honest, but for the sake of the story, Puppy becomes infatuated with sleeping with her.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Described as 'brilliant' [2] in The Daily Telegraph, Julie Burchill thought it was 'touched with genius'.