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''Moving and uplifting'' SUN ''Told with warmth and charm'' WOMAN & HOME ''Has all the feels and a whole lot of heart'' HEAT Following the loss of his scientist wife to cancer, a grieving step-dad is contacted by a professor wanting to honour his late wife''s work with a posthumous award. Despite the ceremony taking place in Zurich he accepts, hoping that by extending the invitation to his seventeen-year-old step-daughter, in the form of an Inter-railing summer holiday across Europe, he might somehow renew their fractured relationship following eighteen months of unanswered texts and messages since she moved in with her dad, a well-known actor. To his surprise and delight she accepts, but what he doesn''t count on is her lying to her father in order to go on the trip, or indeed bringing along several other family members. And soon, what starts off as a very awkward family reunion punctuated with some European sight-seeing, quickly descends into turmoil as tempers fray, secrets are revealed, and the pent-up grief they''re all still carrying is finally and dramatically unleashed.
About the author
MIKE GAYLE was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a features editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan.
Mike became a full-time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as 'full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations', and by The Times as 'a funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic'. Since then he has written eighteen novels, including The Man I Think I Know, selected as a World Book Night title, and Half A World Away, selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2021, Mike was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.
He lives in Birmingham with his wife, kids and greyhound. You can find him online at mikegayle.co.uk and on Twitter @mikegayle.
