The Best Of Adam Sharp

Graeme Simsion Michael Joseph €15.99

Adam Sharp is a piano-tinkling tech consultant who lives for pub quizzes. If his life were a song, he says, it would be Hey Jude – at the repetitive ‘na-nana-na’ point. Then one day, an email from an old flame flips the record to its B-side: Revolution. He’s soon entangled in a ménage à trois in France. This pop-obsessed, highly readable new novel from the bestselling author of The Rosie Project does a decent job of depicting its relatable protagonist’s midlife crisis. But a little like a certain song, it doesn’t quite know when to end.