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|title= Bete de Jour

|author= Stan Cattermole

|buy= Yes

|borrow= Yes

|pages=352

|publisher= Collins

|date= May 2009

|isbn=978-0007312740

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For more bloke-lit with a difference, J. P. Ledwon's [[This Time Around by J P Ledwon|This Time Around]] is well worth a read.

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|comment=Just finished the book, which I bought because of Bete de Jour's blogs. I have never before read a book that made me laugh out loud so many times, and consequently five of my friends now own a copy. I failed to see that Stan fell for a few old cliches, maybe I'm just not bright enough to spot them, and did not at all feel that some of his story was too far fetched, (I had a year remarkably like his not so long ago, when I found myself stitched up, in fact tied up by a so called lover and filmed without my knowledge, I lost a parent and also a good friend, became a single parent myself and found my birth mother, saved my home from repossession and discovered love.) I think the book was beautifully observed, tender, well written and hilarious. I was wonderfully uplifted by it. I felt he was writing about me, in fact I thought he was me at several points, except I am a girl, albeit an ugly one. I feel altogether more normal after reading Bete de Jour, and will carry some of his wonderful wit with me for a long time I hope.

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