Mature: The First Year

by Kevin Chapman

Is 29 too young to have a mid-life crisis?

David Harkness had it all. A beautiful, intelligent, successful wife, a big house, an expensive car and a high profile job. Then the financial crisis happened and suddenly the bank he'd been working for since he was 18 no longer existed. Fast forward three years, and his final throw of the dice to save his marriage, his home, and everything he's ever worked for is to go and get a degree so employers will take him seriously again.

The downside to David's master plan is that to get a degree, he needs to attend a university. And universities are full of teenagers. David doesn't like teenagers. Join him as he attempts to navigate his way through his first year as a mature student, when all he really wants is for things to go back to the way they used to be.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2014

About the author

Kevin Chapman spent the early part of his twenties holding down a sensible grown up job as a financial advisor and living a sensible grown up life with his wife and kids. He left his job when the financial crisis happened in 2008 and shortly after, got divorced, became a minor internet celebrity, moved his new partner in, got a first class honours degree in computing, became a teacher and started writing books about it all. He claims it's not an early onset mid-life crisis. He lives in Peterborough, UK with his fiancee, three kids, a cat and a dog called Dave.

He is the host of popular comedy podcast Best Thing From and the UK's Number 1 independent videogame podcast The Mature Gamer Podcast.

Reviews

[Keiran Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, one hell of a page turner (is it still a page turner on a Kindle?). Some of the characters were painted with pretty broad strokes, but as a first novel a damn fine effort.

How ever if the two main characters were real they would need a real punching.