Author Description

Four forty-somethings go through a midlife crisis in this engaging ironic comedy.<br> Adam Ayers wants to sell the family chocolate bar business, Crackle Confectionery, to corporate giant Shark Snacks plc and find a new independent life. But Adam's wife Jules is vehemently opposed, putting a severe strain on the marriage. Gus Warwick from Popham & Partners is the lawyer advising on the sale who has a driving ambition to become Senior Partner. While his partner, Jan, is more focused on her steamy affair with a hunk from the gym...<br> The sale progresses In a story also featuring a caravan, a bookshop, Romantic poetry, the Brontes, romantic wrong-turns and life choice dilemmas, set against the backdrop of Somerset and Devon one long hot summer... The heat crackles - will the characters, in the end, go pop??