Knowing in his gut that at forty-six this might well be his last chance to write the kind of fiction that might be worth publishing, small-town newspaper feature writer Sean O'Connor, late on a desperately agonizing evening, improbably invents Aidan McCann, an underperforming, self-centered excuse for a man who awakes on the morning of his forty-third birthday to find himself sinking in the sudden realization that he's already wasted most of his life. Sean struggles to tell Aidan's story, at the same time wrestling with whatever it is within himself that has kept his own success at arm's length. God knows - Sean can write. But Sean himself has no idea why, over all these years, he hasn't been able to write the kind of stories he's always wanted to produce. This is the compelling and hard-to-put-down story of two very different men, each of whom has a woman who believes in him - two men who realize in midlife that they have far to go in fulfilling whatever potential they might have. Read this wonderfully impressive and moving debut novel that has readers craving more.