Yep, that’s right, Self-Destruction. On the first page I was laughing aloud. Such a great self-help book. No preaching. It’s so refreshing I recommend it.

Here we have a detailed roadmap to multi-faceted personal ruin, presenting  us with clear steps to drive ever onwards on the wrong path with hot tips to make it worse. Sleepwalk ™ leaves  absolutely no stone unturned in signposting the way to foul up one’s life. Even while we’re rolling on the floor screaming with laughter, we are aware that this guy, a psychologist, could be talking to us, about us.  It doesn’t ‘alf make us think.

Stephen Renwick’s mock 9-step program is an histerical,  dark, ironic and irreverent parody of the plethora of self-help genre.  The confessional humour is directed  at the writer, so says the blurb  but  nonetheless  it most certainly  bangs on the door of our lives and hi-lights some of what we do, think, assume.  And most of it alerts us to the fact that these attitudes perhaps ain’t helpiful and need mitigating.

Renwick, the psychologist, knows how to present not just humour, but help. This he makes clear in the closing chapters of the book. We have listened to his increasingly familiar road to disaster and discontent knowing we need adjust our lives and then – as a conclusion – is the punchline, the- hey, think about this now and redirect.

I ate it up.

Sleepwalk is available from all good booksellers.

https://www.sleepwalk-selfhelp.com/