Used book – If the Horses Could Talk, Elliot Perlman, Carine Chichereau

"I'm absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate." Stephen Maserov is "absolutely terrified of losing a job he absolutely hates." Married to his colleague Eleanor, he had to retrain (their teaching salaries were not enough to cover their loans). A junior lawyer at the all-powerful law firm Savage Carter Blanche, he works non-stop. This doesn't prevent him from being in constant danger of being fired. To make matters worse, Eleanor, exhausted from single-handedly raising their two young boys, kicked him out.

How can he keep this job he hates, pay the mortgage, and save his marriage? Cornered, Stephen takes an initiative as mad as that of the jester in the very old fable he tells his children to put them to sleep. But in real life, what are the jester's chances of winning against the king?

Faced with the absurd, with arbitrary power, humor is the best weapon, empathy the most effective. This is the wager of this delightful contemporary David and Goliath parable that draws us into a great social and humanist comedy against the cynicism of our time and its consequences on our lives.