'Refreshingly assured... I can't wait for her next book.' Simon Brett

'A light touch and sparkling dialogue make this the most promising first for some time.' Irish Independent

'Sharp and funny portrait of life in a low-rent radio station.' Daily Mail

He hit thirty like a race-car driver hits a brick wall.

It was like he woke up one day and found 'This Must Change!!'tattooed on the inside of his head. The 'this' being his life.

Sometimes he even imagined he'd heard it out loud, but that couldn't have been right. He didn't go in for mystic mumbo-jumbo. He was a modern man.

His revelation - he'd decided to call it that - was this: here we are, stuck on a rock, light years from anyplace. Sure it's pretty and we're evolving as fast as we can and everything but basically it's the ass-end of the universe - did anyone ever stop to think that the reason nobody has visited is not because they didn't have the spaceships or technology, but because they didn't give a damn?...