Tony Parsons

Diary – 2 February 2008

Tony Parsons on keeping fit and being guarded by the Gurkhas

issue 02 February 2008

As publication of my new novel, My Favourite Wife, draws closer, Fred Kindall steps up the training. You need to be a fit man to publish a novel these days. ‘It’s good to be alive,’ Fred exults, as I lie on the floor of his gym and he bounces a black medicine ball on my abdominal muscles.

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