Mortification Eight Deaths and Life After Them

<P><B>''Mark Watson is a national treasure'' Richard Osman</B><br><br><I>Whatever I now know about life </I><I>- or think I know </I><I>- I found out through failure, disappointment, mortification. I''m writing it all down as much to remind myself as for anyone else </I><I>- but now you''re here, I''d love you to stick around . . .</I><br><br>Mark Watson is generally accepted to be alive. And yet he''s died many times. Not just on stage - though he''ll tell you about that - but in other ways, too. There''s been the death of a childhood dream. The death of his panel-show career. And then there was the time he died inside and nearly lost it all . . .<br><br>Eye-opening, revealing and painfully funny, this is a book about mortification, failure and all the times life doesn''t work out as planned. But it also wisely questions whether the things we strive for - recognition, success, the approval of others - are really the things that matter. It''s a book about death that reminds us how to live.<br><br><B>''Mark Watson makes the base metal of failure into comedy gold'' Adam Kay</B></P>