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Jim Cooper is thirty-three and works in a call centre in Glasgow, but a sudden reminder of his past pushes him to start again from scratch. He has no job, no savings and no place of his own, so he moves back in with his parents and takes a minimum-wage shift at the same pub where he worked as a teenager. Jim has never been good at planning ahead, and his new life brings plenty of worry.
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Then Paula Fraser walks through the pub door for the first time in twelve years. She still loves him, she admits, but she is married. She has no intention of cheating, and she promises to end her marriage eventually, once the moment feels right. Jim agrees to a strange arrangement: they will not have an affair, and they will not tell anyone that nothing is going on.
Funny, candid and emotionally honest, the story looks at what it takes to grow up rather than simply getting older.
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