Desert Flower; Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller

"Nigel Marsh is a stressed, overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a high-pressure career, a marriage and the demands of four small children under eight. Then the unthinkable happens - he loses his job. After the initial shock (and some unpleasant surgery) Nigel decides to embrace life outside the office and spend a year staking stock." -- back cover.