The Slip - by Mark Sampson (Paperback)

About the Book

Professor Philip Sharpe is having a bad day when he appears on a live televised debate. But things will only get worse when, flustered on air, he makes some wildly inappropriate remarks. The "slip" goes viral and Philip's life and marriage go into a tailspin. His life unravelling, Philip hatches a scheme he hopes will put it all back together.

Book Synopsis

Professor Philip Sharpe is having a bad day when he appears on a live televised debate. But things will only get worse when, flustered on air, he makes some wildly inappropriate remarks. The "slip" goes viral and Philip's life and marriage go into a tailspin. His life unravelling, Philip hatches a scheme he hopes will put it all back together.

Review Quotes

The Slip is a fresh, funny, and thought-provoking book. In the tradition of Amis, Richler, and Wodehouse, Mark Sampson satirizes everything from contemporary gender, marriage, and parenting issues, to academe, politics, mass and social media. It all adds up to an entertaining and "penetrating" read.

A topical premise, one that ... Sampson pushes into some unexpected, and unexpectedly comic territory.

A worthy read ... compelling, human, relatable.

Entertainingly satiric ... The Slip offers comedy with bite. It also reserves ample space for heart.

Riotous but astute.

The Slip is a fresh, funny, and thought-provoking book. In the tradition of Amis, Richler, and Wodehouse, Mark Sampson satirizes everything from contemporary gender, marriage, and parenting issues, to academe, politics, mass and social media. It all adds up to an entertaining and "penetrating" read.-- "Richard Scarsbrook, author of Rockets Versus Gravity and The Indifference League"

A topical premise, one that ... Sampson pushes into some unexpected, and unexpectedly comic territory.-- "Quill and Quire"

A worthy read ... compelling, human, relatable.-- "Booklist"

Entertainingly satiric ... The Slip offers comedy with bite. It also reserves ample space for heart.-- "Toronto Star"

Riotous but astute.-- "Publishers Weekly"

About the Author

Mark Sampson is the author of the novels Off Book and Sad Peninsula, as well as a short-story collection, The Secrets Men Keep, and a poetry collection, Weathervane. He has published fiction and poetry in literary journals across Canada. Mark lives in Toronto.