Yet another laugh out loud book in the brilliant series, “Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups”.
This book, about the dreaded red tape that we all have to deal with, struck a particular chord, especially on a day when I’d had to call my bank a record 7 times, being passed from pillar to post, back to pillar and back to a different post, endlessly giving my poor late mother’s maiden name and my date of birth to people who would then pass me onto the wrong department…sorry, sorry…you’re right.
This isn’t about me.
This is a book review.
So yes, back to reviewing a fun book about red tape.
As the book says:
“Your call is important to us, says the lady on the help-line,
The call is important because it is currently making the company 48p per minute.”
Quite.
Another part that resonated was this extract (below).
As someone who battles to remember the myriad passwords we all need in order to do anything these days, this all sounded dolefully familiar:
I love the old-fashioned illustrations – which is how we all remember Ladybird books, of course – which are totally at variance with the text.
A fun read, as ever with this series, combining childhood nostalgia with wearied adult reality.
And here you go, a link so you can buy this fun book right now – just so long as you can remember all those dratted password 😛