I Should Have Known Better

Fifty years of love, booze, marriage, fatherhood, and near-misses - narrated by a man whose inner cross-examiner never rests. A witty, wrenching memoir-novel about the lifelong art of almost getting it right.

Phil Green is a functionally dysfunctional everyman, bumbling his way through a successful life while an internal inquisitor cross-examines him at every turn. Across fifty years - the fevered Sixties, intoxicating affairs, two marriages, fatherhood, chancy careers, alcoholism, and cance...