A KIND AND GENTLE MAN

Conrad Borscz has always preferred a quiet life. Unfortunately, life has other ideas.

In a single week he loses his wife, his job and his home, leaving him with no choice but to seek refuge in a small south-coast guest house. A chance to recover. A chance to start again. A chance for everything to go horribly wrong.

Because Conrad’s new beginning comes complete with arson, attempted murder, an aged Nazi, incompetent criminals, even more incompetent policemen, illicit drugs, overdoses, heart failure, madness — and falling in love at precisely the worst possible moment.

For the first time in his life, Conrad must stop hiding from the world and learn how to live in it.

Unfortunately, the world has chosen a rather dramatic way of introducing itself.

There has never been a worse time to be a kind and gentle man.