Meet Bernard Stint. A marriage guidance counsellor from Hendon, North London. A rather meek and mild man whose idea of a fun day is sitting at the local transport depot collecting bus numbers. Wife, Angela. Son, Sam. Bernard's life is turned upside down one day, when arriving home from work, Angela announces she is leaving him in favour of a muscle-bound fitness instructor. Realising he can't counsel himself when his own marriage breaks up and losing his job shortly afterwards for drunkenly assaulting Angela's new man, Bernard decides a new life beckons. Somewhere new. Somewhere miles away. Closing his eyes and putting a pin in a map of the UK, he moves to the sleepy north-east town of Lympstone-on-Sea. There he meets Melody, newly arrived from Southern Ireland, a music hall style singer who plays to an nearly empty pier theatre most nights. Can Bernard build his new life and revitalise Melody's flagging stage act? Will success and fortune prevail? Will Bernard and Melody fall for each other in this land of amusements, carousels and candy floss on sticks?
£9.99 plus postage & packing
Due for release in January 2012. Pre-ordered copies may be delivered before Christmas although we cannot guarantee this.
