It’s easily one of the most eye catching front covers in literature in recent years and by the sound of things, it’s not the only thing that’s attention grabbing about the upcoming release of Tony Parsons’ Catching the Sun.
Everyone dreams about running away from it all at one time or another or just getting to live in the sun, but very few of us pluck up the guts or manage to pull it off. In Catching the Sun, though, that’s exactly what taxi driver Tom Flinn (great name, surely lifted from the pages of Mark Twain) and his family manage to do.
After a confrontation with a couple of burglars in his home leaves him just missing out on jail time, Flinn decides it’s time to get out of his broken down country and head for the Thai island paradise of Phuket, taking his wife and kids with him. While the dream seems too good to be true for a while it suddenly turns out to be just that as disaster hits their new life.
Out on paperback on the 24th May, Catching the Sun is Tony Parsons’ latest in a line of novels that tell the stories of the trials and tribulations of 30-something men. Catching the Sun sounds like a big departure from the likes of Man and Boy though and if he can tap into the old NME punk writer cool that he used to have and shake off the stigma of writing for the Mirror and the whole Parsehole situation, it could be a good read.
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