Helium
By Tim Earnshaw
ISBN 0 5754 0115 XGary Wilder used to be in a rock band which never quite made the big time and now, in his forties, he runs a guitar shop. I suspected a kind of High Fidelity lookalike and was almost put off. It turned out to be something completely different. Not just different from High Fidelity but different from anything else I have read.
It is very funny, I embarrassed my friends by laughing out loud in the departure lounge at Heathrow. It takes a while to get fully into the book but stick with it. Weird things start to happen to Gary. First his hair starts to float - gel solves that - but later he starts to have spells of weightlessness. Next morning he wakes to feel something solid on his stomach. He has floated up to the ceiling during the night and is pressed up against the light fitting. His efforts to solve and conceal his problem are very funny.
