'A fine debut novel: highly readable and hinting at even better to come.' The Herald'[A] superb debut novel ...

Abe 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 an identity crisis. His fourteen-year-old grand-daughter is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart.