Corkscrew: The highly improbable, but occasionally true, tale of a professional wine buyer by Peter Stafford-Bow

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Corkscrew: The highly improbable, but occasionally true, tale of a professional wine buyer by Peter Stafford-Bow
Published April 13th 2018 by Thistle Publishing
406 pages | Goodreads

Description: ❝”Peter Stafford-Bow’s first novel, CORKSCREW: The Highly Improbable, But Occasionally True, Tale of a Professional Wine Buyer, follows Felix Hart as he rises comically from an ejected prep school student to a major player in the wine industry, narrating his account to a panel of mysterious investigators. But CORKSCREW is more than just a string of eccentric and naughty anecdotes—it’s a chronicle of one man’s undeserving good fortune as he bounces around the world buying wine and climbing up the corporate ladder of retail.❞ (end of description)

MY RATING: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)

REVIEW

This is a funny novel that takes place in the world of wine. Felix Hart, our main character, is an orphan that starts working in the wine industry and after many adventures and ordeals ends up being interrogated by the authorities. This is not a spoiler as the book opens up with Felix being questioned.

The story is told from the point of view of Felix and is over-the-top funny. Sometimes the situations were a bit absurd for me but I understood that the author was trying to make a point. Overall, I liked it and recommend it to lovers of wine and readers of contemporary fiction.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via Netgalley