Who is Tom Ditto?
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  • Published: 24 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473501485
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 5 min
  • Narrators: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Christopher Ragland

Who is Tom Ditto?

The feelgood comedy with a mystery at its heart

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24 Apr 2014
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24 Apr 2014
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2 Mar 2015
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Gone Girl meets Nick Hornby with a dash of The IT Crowd on the side. One of the smartest, funniest, wittiest novels of the year.

We join the action just as our ‘hero’ Tom, (early thirties, reads the ‘news’ on the radio) finds out that his girlfriend has NOT left him.

Tom,

I have not left you. But I am gone.
Please carry on as normal.
Love always,

Hayley

Has Hayley gone or hasn’t she? Is she coming back? If she has gone, but is coming back, when is she coming back? And what is he supposed to bloody do in the meantime?

And what if she’s never coming back??

Trying to work out what’s happening to his confusing life, Tom tries to track Hayley down. In doing so, he stumbles across a strange and eccentric group of people with an irregular and highly-addictive hobby.

Next, he’s being followed, but he’s not sure by whom. And then he also almost loses his job at the radio station in the now infamous ‘Jam Nazi’ episode, which of course, you know about.

Above all, Tom is trying to work out who everyone is.

Because who is Hayley? Who is this new girl following him around the supermarket?

And who, for that matter, is TOM DITTO?
  • Published: 24 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473501485
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 5 min
  • Narrators: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Christopher Ragland
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About the author

Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace is a Sunday Times-bestselling author who lives in London. His first book, Join Me, was described as a ‘word-of-mouth phenomenon’ by The Bookseller and ‘one of the funniest stories you will ever read’ by the Daily Mail. His second book, Yes Man – in which he decided to say ‘Yes’ to everything – became a hugely successful film with Jim Carrey in the lead role.

His column in ShortList magazine reaches more than 1.3 million readers weekly. He was the PPA Columnist of the Year 2011 and the Arqiva Radio Presenter of the Year 2012 for his work as the host of the triple Sony Award-winning Xfm Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace. GQ magazine has called him: ‘One of Britain’s great writing talents’.

www.dannywallace.com

portrait photo of Danny Wallace

Also by Danny Wallace

Yes Man Film Tie-In
More Awkward Situations for Men
Somebody Told Me
F*** You Very Much
What Not to Do (And How to Do It)
Charlotte Street
How to Be a Modern Man
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Praise for Who is Tom Ditto?

Tremendous. A wonderfully well-observed and beguiling novel – shrewd, funny and stealthily profound

WILLIAM BOYD

Who is Tom Ditto? is Danny Wallace at his very best: funny, assured and relentlessly clever. A brilliant novel

JOHN NIVEN

Praise for Who is Tom Ditto? - a high concept love story with a mystery at its heart: An air of mystery and of a past being reconstructed, with a booster shot of comedy…As you would expect from the author of Awkward Situations for Men, the toe-curling embarrassment of much of Tom’s life is well realised

OBSERVER

Wallace has scored another hit with this quirky novel…Packed full of gags, this is also a tender and touching story

SUNDAY MIRROR

This is a terrific novel…The plot is wild and unexpected, with a dash of sinister, and it’s incredibly funny

THE TIMES

The brilliant author is back with this hilarious, sharp new novel

THE SUN ON SUNDAY

This mystery, written by TV funny man Danny Wallace, will leave you completely mesmerised

NOW

Wallace is adept at capturing the nuances of the mundane and the ridiculous, while being incredibly funny. 4 stars

STYLIST

Danny is as hilarious as ever

SHORTLIST

Danny Wallace’s beguiling second novel seduces the reader by stealth with some laugh-out-loud throwaway pieces of astute observational comedy…Wallace probes real issues about what makes us who we are in the internet age. It’s the kind of book you have to ration to avoid it being over too quickly

DAILY MAIL

A funny, clever novel from the award-winning writer

MARIE CLAIRE

Chortlesome

BELLA

A deep story with a consistently grounded humour

EMERALD STREET

Wallace’s observational skills and attention to detail are superb…A hilarious and fresh take on modern life. Brilliantly written. 5 stars

HEAT

It’s funny, witty, clever, good-natured – one of those purely enjoyable books you pick up with pleasure and put down with regret. It won’t change your life, but it will brighten it up for a while.

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