The Manana Man

A novel about death, friendship, love and tequila.
A random stabbing is the starting point for a group of friends to embark on a weekend wake. Carrying their dead friend’s ashes with them, they travel the bars and clubs of Leeds city centre to the hills and beaches of Mull fulfilling a promise they made to give him the ultimate send off. Covering more than miles, their journey is full of tears and laughter as they come to terms with their friend’s untimely death, discovering their own way of coping with loss and looking to their own futures knowing how easily life can come to an end. Love found and lost; sex coming and going; grief over death and life; missed opportunities and misunderstood intentions, all in a weekend where the tequila flows as freely as the tears.

All At Once

Be careful what you wish for – you might just get it.
The school reunion is a tragedy when your life is just plodding along, all of a sudden you realise how goal orientated you are not. So change your life, not just one part, but all of it. Give up the job, try to be the entrepreneur, find the girl and fall in love – and get her pregnant. All within three months. Then live with the consequences.
But life isn’t that straight forward because nothing happens in isolation. Compare your life to your friends and feel short changed and unprepared for fatherhood; realise being your own boss means throwing a sickie is no longer an everyday hangover cure; worry that all you’ve got in common with your new girlfriend is a shared responsibility for getting pregnant, and then discover there’s no going back.

Shortstories

Siren’s Song – Drunk vengeance

Moment of Truth – A once in a lifetime opportunity

A Travellers Tale – Like mother, like daughter, love them both

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