Poor bemused Desmond, who doesn't understand women anyway, has just been thrown out by his wife, Halfin despair, and half in search of his past, he borrows the enormous coach he drives for a living and goes off to find his eleven-year-old son, Edward.
How do you find a child you have never seen? Edward was the result of a brief liaison, years before, and Desmond only has one clue when he begins. His journey take him crisscrossing, through contemporary Britain. It is a quest with the suspense of a thriller, and it builds to epic proportions as he discovers, en route, keys not only to himself but to the lives of the many surprising people he meets, from Elvis addicts to faithful wives.
As the mileage clocks up his son still eludes him, but when he reaches his final destination the result is as starling for him as it is for us.
Deborah Moggach's hilarious and tender novel, her seventh and the most gripping so far, speaks up at last for eighties' forgotten gender:man.  

źródło opisu: Wyd. Hamish Hamilton, 1988