After being sacked from his high-power executive job, Morris now has nothing to lose. He is free - sort of. Determined to devote what time he has left to creating music, his lifelong dream, he returns to his childhood home, 'to kickstart his life once more - and this time get it right!' Very soon, however, things start going wrong. Very wrong. Not only does his past catch up with him, but the future that is rushing towards him becomes more threatening by the day. Old bad habits creep back in again. Then he meets Jess.

Upbeat, laugh-out-loud funny, this compelling novel, set in the Borders, swinging sixties London and present-day Edinburgh, touches on music, Scottish independence, love in later life and, most of all, how to make the most of one's life before it is too late.