Half a World Away

Royal 8vo. Pp. [x], 338. Illustrated wraps.

Author's second novel. Left-behind music fan, Ben, whose girlfriend has embarked on a year's teaching English in Japan, is experiencing some wanderlust of his own. By the author of music-related novel, Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2002).

"A shrewd and ingenious riff on modern relationships, but finally more than that: it's about politics and music as well as feelings, and how you have to insist on the highest standards in all three. A comic gem with a serious undertow." –Jonathan Coe