No Fireworks

Abe Stone is a sixty-one-year-old alcoholic with a Henry VIII fixation going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year-old grand-daughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart and how Abe can begin to put his dishevelled life in order.

Reviews of No Fireworks

"'Touching, funny and compelling.' Louise Welsh 'Thoughtful and brave… bleakly humorous and moving.' TLS 'A fine debut novel: highly readable and hinting at even better to come.' The Herald"