Book David Lodge Published in: 1996 Publisher: Penguin Books Language: English A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, LaurenceTubbyPassmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubbys life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarksvia Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhoodon a picaresque quest for his lost contentment, in an ingenious, hilarious and poignant novel of neuroses.