Publisher's Synopsis
A joyful novel full of humanity from the author of Soft in the Head - a July 2016 Indie Next pick.
Saved from drowning in Paris's River Seine, a sixty-something misanthrope finds himself stuck in a hospital bed for six weeks while he recovers. As he looks back on his life, the good and the bad, he makes some unexpected new acquaintances, and just when he thought life had no more suprises in store for him, he finds out he was wrong....
