This is a well-written polemic against ambition, examined in the context of neoliberalism's pernicious rhetoric of social mobility and aspiration. Like many Repeater books, it is informed by theory but in an approachable way. Peel is particularly good on the importance of failure and (throughout) on the ironies of having the ambition to abolish ambition. Given unfolding events in the USA it's also a timely book and one to read in the same light as Berardi's recent "Quite Everything" (also published by Repeater). I started off fearing it was an article stretched to book length and ended up wanting more. That probably says it all.