Phin

Published 2010
ISBN 978-0-473-16861-2

This humorous, feel good novel started while I was working in China. One day in Shanghai a friend, Phil Neame, expressed a wish to write, but stated he had "No ideas for a story." I asked him to give me one word about people that fascinated him. He suggested "underachievement" so of course, being contrary, I had to write a novel about the opposite; a superachiever, who seems to effortlessly succeed, although of course he doesn't particularly want to. This attitude drives everyone around him insane!
Set in the hard driving US corporate world, ugly technophobe Phin Cooper hilariously meets the current Miss Universe Claire Coates of England who is ethereally gorgeous, multilingual, effortlessly polished and sophisticated. Surely love couldn't blossom between such opposites?
Then of course there are the kids with their wayward hippy Mom… and warm bighearted Millie in her wheelchair, giving to all around her. I really love all the characters in this story.

I hope you enjoy this yarn as much as I do!
Finally, there is a big surprising twist at the end of the yarn… which leads into a sequel "Billionaire Phin."