Becoming Ted: The joyful and uplifting novel from the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

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I read it with my red pen hand itching throughout because it was so clear what needed to be done and it wouldn't even have been hard.

You experience so much of what he goes through and there are so many relatable and just lovable aspects to his character. It was such a joy being on Ted's journey to find his true self and to read about all the amazing people he met along the way. I don't *want* to sit here and enumerate things I didn't like because I loved the heart of this book, but for me, the text really needed a thorough redraft to sing as it should have, and I'm actively cross it didn't get that. I really love Matt Cain (The Madonna of Bolton made me cry buckets of happy tears) and I was hugely looking forward to this. Ted is happily married to Giles (or so he thinks) but when his heart is broken, he must find a way to live his own life and follow his own dreams, dreams which have been put aside by feelings of duty and of not feeling good enough.

I never felt like I was in someone’s head because they were self censoring their own memories until the plot required them to think about them.

There is a heart-felt and emotional story buried under my very glaring complaints that readers will definitely appreciate and relate to. In this respect I was in a similar position to Oskar, a young Polish man, who is on his own personal journey. full of warmth, humour and courage' Ruth Hogan 'I ADORED this book, it's so uplifting, original and funny' Daily Mail'Tender, full of courage and irresistibly good-hearted' Rachel Joyce''You go, girl' positivity seeps from every page . I do not think this writing style is necessarily bad, as I did eventually get used to it, but it’s… strange, and made me feel like I wasn’t reading a book.But, the writing really has to resonate with me; it has to make me feel something and has to be something that is tolerable for my senses! Hij is zachtaardig, verlegen, bescheiden en onzeker, hij zet zijn dierbaren altijd op de eerste plek waardoor hij zichzelf en zijn wensen heeft weggecijferd en omdat hij zijn ouders niet wil teleurstellen werkt hij al jaren in de ijssalon van zijn familie terwijl hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van ijs houdt. This is revealed slowly throughout the book in a series of anonymous notes, but it doesn't actually add anything to the story. Ted finds the incriminating photos, Giles says he’s leaving him and within 5 mins of dialogue he’s packing his things.

Ted Ainsworth has always worked at his family’s ice cream business in the quiet Lancashire town of St Luke’s-on-Sea.

The book also focuses on acceptance in other ways, and I thought Oskar and Andrzej's stories were depicted incredibly well in this regard, though they are of course very sad. And Ted, who has spent nearly twenty years living with, and often for , another person, must reimagine the future he has happily taken for granted.