Sun Dial Street

“A fine writer is at work here, attested to by the intricate connections among the characters and their evolving relationships.”
Library Journal

If you take it upon yourself to read Sun Dial Street, read it for the people in it, for the way they talk to each other, for their fun eccentricities and humour. Read it because it speaks plainly about families while demonstrating a family who is anything but “plain”, and because it has that breezy, contemporary west coast feel that will make you want to grab a towel, don flip-flops, and head for the beach.

Don’t look for a deep plot or a typical murder story (yes, someone kills someone else in the book) because you won’t get it. The reviewers of Sun Dial Street all seemed a little perplexed by why we never really know who killed Eli, but the ones who really loved the novel loved it for the characters and dialogue, the pace and language. See Reviews

The book shows none of the grinding self-doubt that accompanied its creation. I wrote this as a first person narrative from a man’s point of view – something I will never do again as I found it an unnecessary impediment to the whole process. I was only 26 when I started the book and felt about 105 when I finally wrote the last page.

Every time I pick it up I expect to find something that gives away how young I was, how relatively inexperienced as a novelist (and absolutely I find just that) but what I find also is something that sounds fresh because this book is quite fun in the yadda yadda department, with lots of punchy dialogue and oddball characters. See Extract

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