The prolific and always worth reading Benjamin Myers has produced a warm-hearted and moving novel about new beginnings and kindness, and also about loneliness, grief and addiction. An obscure American soul singer, who had a couple of minor hit records in the 1970s, and whose life was then overcome with tragedy and loss, doesn't realise that his songs have taken on a new life in the UK's north-east soul nostalgia scene, and that he's a cult favourite. He then receives an invitation to perform at event in Scarborough, and finds himself surrounded by new friends and his life changes again, this time for the better. It's a lovely and compelling novel, brilliantly written as always.