Book description
On the brink of forty, newly single with a failed business, Philip
thought he'd reached an all-time low. It only needed a discarded chip
on a South London street to lay him literally flat.
So, bedbound and bored, Philip naturally starts to write the story
of his life. But the mundane catalogue of seaside holidays and bodged
DIY, broken relationships and unspoken truths, reveals more surprises,
both comic and touching, than Philip or his family ever bargained for.
Even, perhaps, a happy ending ...
Clare Chambers was born in Croydon in 1966 and read English at
Oxford. She wrote her first novel during a year in New Zealand, after
which she worked as an editor for a London publisher. She is also the
author of
Dr y Spell
,
Learning to Swim
and
In a Good Light
. She is married and lives in Kent with her husband and young family.
