New novel about men love and relationships by the author of the Book of theYear Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend therest of hi... » 

New novel about men love and relationships by the author of the Book of theYear Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend therest of his life and then lost her. He doesnt believe you get a second chanceat love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief idyllic timeof his marriage Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. Hetakes comfort in a string of pointless transient affairs with his students atChurchills Language School and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chineseman George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs?Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do youplay it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with aTV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller Man and Boy TonyParsonss new novel is full of laughter and tears biting social comment andoverwhelming emotion. «