When Tom's wife leaves, he is left with the care of 2 young kids and his world in tatters. However, he vows to start again and rebuild a life that, this time, he might actually want to be part of. It's `Philip Roth meets Cold Feet' (Helen Lederer) in the hilarious debut about life, love and 21st century manhood from comedian Spencer Brown.
2020 was supposed to be a great year.Unfortunately, Tom Cooper, like the rest of the world, is going to be spending the next few months trapped in the middle of a pandemic. Stuck inside a small flat with sole responsibility for his two single-digit children, Tom is plunged into a world of home schooling, supermarket feuds and alfresco workout sessions, not to mention keeping tabs on ageing parents who won’t stay home.Faced with the problems of cash-strapped tooth fairies, buying a rat trap online and an NHS-supporting arms race with an elderly neighbour, Tom realises he must rise to the occasion, but when his girlfriend asks for an erotic photo of his rapidly deteriorating body, it may be one step too far...Join Tom as he navigates lockdown in this hilarious stand-alone novel from the author of The Rebuilding of Tom Cooper.
Our benign efforts all add up, they accumulate and have force, even failure has effect. Petite, almost aggressive in her vitality, Suk raises herself out of childhood poverty to become a trek guide in the forests of the Kingdom of Thailand. She lives with her friends at LekNaruk Inc, a tiny eating place in the country town of Klong Graitin, and struggles to establish and maintain her independence amidst a miscellany of acquaintances and visitors. Experiencing the full range of the human comedy, including hubris and violence, inevitably Suk has to compromise in life and love. Suk Quartet: Volume 1