(Paperback)

What makes a father violent As a volunteer at St Margaret's Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. Jamie's father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness.

(Paperback)

Story (that's his name) can feel a middle-youth crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a great flat and great mates: Mac, who is obsessed with biscuits; JP, who never says anything if it's nice; Cannie, whose only admirer is the bird that lives outside her window; and Vincent, who has finally proposed to his girlfriend after nineteen years.