Lessons in Humiliation

This uproarious and touching novel from Timothy Edward is the tale of terrible life choices made by one man, Henry Robson, and of the chaos that ensues. Lessons in Humiliation will have you crying tears of laughter and sympathy as the narrator is tossed by lovers and employers from one bewildering experience to another.
The story follows an out-of-work actor suffering a mid-life crisis. Balding and frustrated, and living all alone in rural Dorset, two choices present themselves. Inadvisedly, he selects both…
Initially, a torrid affair seems to tick all the boxes, but any happiness derived from the liaison soon unravels when Henry, untrained as a teacher, accepts employment at a school run by a madman. Finding himself surrounded by specialists in humiliation – professional, public and private – will he learn his lesson?
Follow the adventures and misadventures of this lovable but hapless rogue, a man all the more endearing for his weaknesses. Laugh as slapstick jostles for supremacy with the surreal, and cry twice over at moments of utter poignancy.
An Aga-saga for men (and for women wishing to know what men are really thinking), Lessons in Humiliation falls headlong towards a most unexpected dénouement.
“I suppose you could say that writing for me is therapy. If at the same time I can entertain and make people laugh at the stupidity of Man, this is all to the good.” Timothy Edward comments on his reasons for writing Lessons in Humiliation.

Father of three and stepfather to three others, Timothy Edward has enjoyed unremarkable careers in bookselling/publishing (studious), illustration (humorous), acting (various) and teaching (inglorious, having no idea how to teach GCSE ‘Drama’). Now a consummate non box-ticker, he gardens, writes and rants ineffectually at his wife and family.