UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Insightful and witty novel about love and literary agenting

Mike is a rising star in a distinguished literary agency. He is a passionate reader looking as much for the woman of his dreams as the next great client. But when a top author sacks him and his love life implodes, Mike's career goes flinging off the rails. Seeking respite in the beautiful wilderness of the Black Mountains, he is shaken to find his old flame Madelin has moved there, too, with her difficult husband, Vince.

Vince is a prize-winning author with a bad dose of writer's block; and his family are suffering because of it. Madelin soon lures Mike into the role of marital go-between, earning Mike the trust of a man he resents and the dependency of a woman in despair of her marriage. It is a volatile position that Mike only registers when a leading agent suggests a plot to restore his fortunes. Mike, it seems, has inserted himself between rousing and unethical opportunities, and it looks like love and achievement can be his at last - if he is prepared to do the wrong thing, and do it ruthlessly.

A brilliantly entertaining and absorbing novel about passion and compromise in work and love, and one man's craving to be wholehearted whatever the cost.

Born in Canada and educated at Bedales School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he read English and Law. After qualifying as a barrister and being called to the Bar (Middle Temple), he joined Blake Friedmann as a media agent. He is married with two daughters.