From the man who brought you C4’s How To Get A Book Deal and the award-winning memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts comes the true story of how a father-son suicide pact transformed him from cynical loser to happy failure.

There’s nothing like seeing your dad have a go at an activity to make it seem embarrassing. It turns out suicide is no exception.

Sacked, dumped, and stuck living back with his parents, failed writer Tim Clare struggled to see the point in carrying on. Eventually, during a 4am drive, his newly spiritual dad staged a dramatic last-ditch bid to shock him out of his misery. Thus Tim began a quest to lose his cynicism and get happy. But when you’re faced with jeering teens, obnoxious neighbours, all six Rocky movies and a psychic horse, is there anything in this sordid world worth getting happy about?

“Shrewd and funny” Scotsman; “Absolutely brilliant, mesmerizing” Jon Ronson

Tim Clare’s Death Drive is the wonderfully written and hilariously told debut stand-up show by the award-winning stand-up poet, writer and musician. Featuring the occasional ukelele song and verse, it is inspired by Clare’s award-winning memoir We Can’t All Be Astronauts - Winner of the East Anglian Book Award 2009 – and praised by Bookseller as: “containing the bumbling charm of Jon Ronson and the splenetic bile of Charlie Brooker. Tim Clare is a fantastic writer.”