These are the memoirs of 29 year old John Birmingham, who has shared houses and apartments with 89 people and kept notes on all of them.

John Birmingham invented grunge writing before the term was known. This is the book (together with its sequel, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco) that helped define youth culture in Australia in the 1990s, and still continues to amuse large numbers of young readers, both here and abroad.