Sentimental Journey from Hell

His mum’s just kicked the bucket in Blighty and his wife’s bonking a painter in Ottawa, so grouchy old Will Prentice, adman extraordinaire, figures that after ma’s funeral and with no pressing reason to return to Canada, he might as well spend some time travelling about England. Will is an ex-pat who’s having a mid-life crisis about whether he truly belongs in Canada, England or neither, and since old Vera was a congenital liar and tax fiddler, he’s pretty sure that after years of running prim and proper guest houses, she must have amassed a bigger chunk of undeclared earnings than is to be found in the cash box kept by her sister Phyllis. On top of which, he’s not so sure his dad was really his dad. Auntie isn’t much help and neither is the rest of the family, a cartoon selection of lower-class British stereotypes who shout and belch and eat sticky toffee pudding; so, armed with a map and a couple of photographs of unidentified people, he sets off to discover...