Steven Butts arrives in Canada to become a professor and race cars. His girlfriend comes too. Everything that can go wrong does.

Note to self:

• Next time, leave Eddie home
  
• Do not accept a job teaching something you know nothing about
  
• Canada is cold; do not buy a British sports car
  
• On entering academia, abandon all logic
  
• Hands off the student body
  
• Do not visit old girlfriend in London
  
• If you do, avoid sleeping with her flat mate
  
• Never get married to make yourself feel better
• Once married, you will become strangely attractive to women. Just say no
  
• On wife’s Opening Night, do not take a student
  
• Do not go car racing
  
• Do not crash

  It’s a scream now, but finding yourself lost in Canada wasn’t so funny at the time.

  "Simon Leigh: writes with a ‘…wry, impressionistic style…a powerful first book". -Len Gasparini, The Windsor Star

  "'A well-written, witty, ribald and rollicking journey into the dark ways of men and women." - PAUL QUARRINGTON, author (Home Garden, The Life of Hope, King Leary, etc), artist, musician, screenwriter, CA.

  "Simon Leigh’s Wild Women is ‘hilarious…dying to know how much of it was true". - Hilary Stanly, WESTWOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS

  "Smart humour…uncomfortable wisdom" - CBC TORONTO

  "Wild Women: great read, strong story and brilliant voice". - DON MASTERS, UKAUTHORS

  "A readable book…a sense of someone out in the real world of events, alertly noting and enjoying his life". - ALAN PEARSON, THE GLOBE AND MAIL

  "A campus novel all about motor racing ? I'm not interested in cars, and it's too late for me to be interested in education, but I was held by this till my wheels came off... A must for anyone intending to leave Australia. Or drive in a Canadian winter. Or take up with a woman. Or crash at high speed in a car race... This guy writes beautifully; he's good at funny and good at serious... (If this novel is at all autobiographical, don't ever accept a lift from the author. But do rush out and read the book)." -- Miles Kington, columnist, The Independent, UK

  Review by POD-Dy-Mouth

  
  
  
  
  

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