A hilarious collection of the most agonizing real-life inconveniences faced by the iPhone-losing, polenta-burning, Eurostar-missing middle classes, illustrated by Matt Blease
'My pug has hiccups'
'I've given myself a croissant headache'
'I just dropped batteries in my quinoa'
'Think I've forgotten how to ski'
Can't find your melon baller? Wrestling with wrapping paper? Struggling to figure out how to properly pronounce quinoa?? Get your daily trials into perspective with this hilarious collection of the top #MiddleClassProblems from around the globe.
Since 2010, Benjamin Lee has run the hugely popular @MiddleClassProb account, and in this book he has selected the all-time highlights.
Benjamin Lee is editor of Shortlist.com and has written for the Guardian. Since 2010 he has run the hugely popular @MiddleClassProb Twitter account.
Title: Middle Class Problems: Problems but not real actual problems, just middle class ones
Author: Lee, Benjamin
ISBN: 9780224101127
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2014-12-04
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.3584 kg
This brilliant book is full of our most tragic inconveniences * Shortlist *
A compendium of priceless iPhone-losing, quinoa-overcooking, Eurostar-missing middle-class cries for help * Bookseller *
This very funny look at the small-scale catastrophes that beset the middle classes on a daily basis might just make you wince in self-recognition... brilliantly devastating on food-related irateness * Simple Things *
Someone spilled quinoa on my paddle yoga board. Real laments from those suffering balsamic vinegar tragedies and unlabelled salad bar crises * Reader's Digest *
Dodgy chai tea, incorrect glassware and horse-riding etiquette - the problems of the middle class are hilarious endless * Huffington Post *