‘A moving and emotional story told with warmth and humour … a book to curl up with and forget about the world’ Eleanor Ray   ‘A novel so full of heart it will pull on your heartstrings and nestle itself into your soul’ Emma-Claire Wilson   ‘Gentle, poignant and often witty … A beautifully written and intelligent novel about working out who and what really matters´ Susan Elliot Wright,

What if halfway through your life was just the beginning? Robin Edmund Blake is halfway through his life.   Born in 1986, when Halley’s Comet crossed the sky, he is destined to go out with it, when it returns in 2061.

Until that day, he can’t die. He has proof.   With his future mapped out in minute detail, a lucrative but increasingly dull job in the City of London, and Gemma to share his life with, Robin has a plan to be remembered forever.

  But when Robin’s sick father has one accident too many, the plan starts to unravel. Robin must return home to the tiny seaside town of Eastgate, learn to care for the man who never really cared for him, and face the childhood ghosts he fled decades ago.   Desperate to get his life back on schedule, he connects with fellow outsider Astrid.

Brutally direct, sharp-witted and a professor at a nearby university, she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. But Astrid is hiding something and someone from Robin. And he’s hiding even more from her…  For fans of Hazel Prior, Rachel Joyce and Jonas Jonasson,

‘Compassionate and insightful … the whole novel is imbued with warmth and humour’ Gill Paul   ‘A funny, heart-warming and unpredictable story of old friendships, new connections and fresh perspectives.