Happy Is the One - diskuze

The carefully ordered life of a thirty-something man falls apart when he is forced to return to his hometown to care for his elderly father, and meets a woman who has as many secrets as he does … A warmly funny, poignant, life-affirming novel about coming home and letting go.   ‘A moving and emotional story told with warmth and humour … a book to curl up with and forget about the world’ Eleanor Ray   ‘A novel so full of heart it will pull on your heartstrings and nestle itself into your soul’ Emma-Claire Wilson   ‘With a wonderfully relatable cast of characters and an authentic plot, this life-affirming story is filled with humour and wisdom’ Candis   ‘Warm and tender, this will really make you think’Fabulous magazine ‘Gentle, poignant and often witty … A beautifully written and intelligent novel about working out who and what really matters’ Susan Elliot Wright   ______What if halfway through your life was just the beginning? Robin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life.   Born in 1986, when Halley’s Comet crossed the sky, he is destined to go out with it, when it returns in 2061. Until that day, he can’t die. He has proof.   With his future mapped out in minute detail, a lucrative but increasingly dull job in the City of London, and Gemma to share his life with, Robin has a plan to be remembered forever.   But when Robin’s sick father has one accident too many, the plan starts to unravel. Robin must return home to the tiny seaside
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