Martin is a kind, decent, reasonably good-looking man. And look were it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His best friend John is too busy looking for sex on the internet to offer support, and anyway, he prefers infamy to sympathy. Martin's other best friend Caroline is keen to help but she has her own problems: she's convinced her boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's sweet but exhausting hippie father turns up, wearing his 'Proud to be an Embarassing Parent' badge. Grim.So Martin does what every out and proud gay man in London is encouraged to do: he jumps head first into hedonism. He joins a gym, and throws himself into the gay club scene, a world of drugs and muscles, hard bodies and harder music. So what if it's not really him? 'Being himself' didn't exactly do him any favours.Acclaimed writer Paul Burston's wickedly funny and engaging first novel will appeal to anyone who's had to resume the dating game. Especially if you were dumped for a rent boy called Marco.