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Like a Shag on a Rock
Paperback
Series: A Man in Flight
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tom Harding is not having a crisis.
He has a job. He has friends. He has a gym membership he is finally getting some use out of.
He is also sleeping in a Vauxhall Corsa in Oxford in December, with most of his possessions in bin bags and a sombrero on the parcel shelf.
But this is temporary. An administrative problem. Nothing he can't sort out.
Then Tom finds a room in a battered Victorian terrace in Cowley and moves in with John: Australian, argumentative, spectacularly untidy, and considerably more complicated than he first appears.
The house acquires people. A South African with an improbable talent for being exactly where he is needed. A woman who seems to have moved in by stealth. Friends, colleagues, neighbours, barbecues, leaks, arguments, secrets, and one Australian backpacker called Rachel who was only supposed to stay for a few days.
Somewhere along the way, the place stops being somewhere Tom happens to live.
It becomes home.
Funny, warm, and sharply observed, Like a Shag on a Rock is a novel about the strange period between the life you thought you wanted and the one you never planned for - about friendship, belonging, second chances, and the people who turn up while you are insisting you are perfectly fine on your own.
This substantially revised and expanded Author's Edition is the first novel in the Tom Harding series and precedes the events of Stone the Crows.
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