Fat Chance

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Fat Chance

By: Nick Spalding

Narrated by: Heather Wilds, Napoleon Ryan

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About this listen

Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit.

Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of beer and chicken curry.

When Elise, a radio DJ and Zoe's best friend, tells them about a new competition, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn their lives around. Fat Chance will pit six hefty couples against one another to see who can collectively lose the most weight and walk away with a £50,000 prize.

So begins six months of abject misery, tears, and frustration—that just might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to them - in another laugh-out-loud look at the way we live now from bestselling author Nick Spalding.

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Would you listen to Fat Chance again? Why?

I don't tend to read or listen to a book again since there are 'so many books, so little time'. However, this a a cheerful, funny, easy read/listen, so maybe!

What did you like best about this story?

It was 'laugh out loud' funny at regular intervals, but at no time did it engage in the socially acceptable, but reprehensible, passtime of laughing at, and being judgemental and patronising to, fat people.

Which character – as performed by Heather Wilds and Napoleon Ryan – was your favourite?

My favourite was probably Greg, but I loved Zoe too.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I was driving when listening to the chapter in which Greg had been drinking copious amounts of coffee as part of the Russian Airforce diet. It made me laugh so much that I fear I looked like a completely crazy women to other motorists!

Any additional comments?

Napoleon's narration was spot on. Heather Wild's was a bit wooden in style. I checked some of her narration in samples of other books. No problems there, so I think it was her interpretation of telling the story in diary exerts. However, some sentence breaks were just wrong and it did mar the listening experience a little. That said, she has a lovely voice and was pleasent to listen to.