Following the loss of his partner, Mark, the obstinately optimistic hero of 50 Reasons To Say Goodbye, tries to pick up the pieces and build a new life for himself in the seaside town of Brighton

Haunted by the death of his lover and a fading sense of self Mark struggles to put the past behind him, exploring Brighton's high and low-life, falling in love with charming, but unavailable Tom, and hooking up with Jenny, a long lost girlfriend from a time when such a thing seemed possible. But Jenny has her own problems, as all around are inexorably sucked into the violence of her life, destiny intervenes, weaving the past to the present, and the present to the future in ways no one could have imagined.

"I don't know how I ended up in Brighton. I'm in a permanent state of surprise about it. Of course I know the events that took place. I remember the last time Steve ever looked into my eyes before the grinding screeching wiped it all out. It all seems so unexpected, so far from how things were supposed to be; I had a life and a job and a new boyfriend,. I was supposed to hear him play saxophone, to spend a dirty weekend of sex and laughter before a Monday morning much like any other...That's all that was supposed to happen."

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