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Commitment. You’ve taken the first Big Step: Marriage. So what comes next? The Mortgage? The Career Choice? Even....The Baby? Does one thing really lead to another?

Flin and his friends are facing new commitments, and life is certainly not going as predicted, or as expected.

Flin abandons the city whirl for a low key job in the country and the idyllic lifestyle – or is it? Ben has it all: the high flying career, ideal home and perfect family – but what happened to the fun and excitement? And Harry seems destined to become the eternal bachelor. Bored with the line-up of suitable girls, he yearns for his first love, glimpsed across a crowded room.

Jamie Holland’s uncannily accurate portrayal of contemporary life is infused with warmth, humour and even optimism. An Almost Perfect Moon is a more than perfect summer read.

At thirty it must be time to put away childish things and finally grow up. But for what?

Ben's life now looks pretty rosy – nice house, great job and an adoring wife, first baby on the way. But there's a lot more to fatherhood than Look Who's Talking led him to believe. Never mind 2.4 children, 1.0 seems tricky enough...

Flin is feeling increasingly frustrated by life in London. He abandons the city whirl for the idyllic country lifestyle. But his plans to become a latter day Pop Larkin falter as his new surroundings seem far removed from the rural charm of Darling Buds.

And Harry feels destined to become the eternal bachelor. The parade of utterly charming and suitable girls comes up against his search fr perfect love. Then, on the point of discarding the rose-tinted specs for good, a chance encounter renews his belief that there can only ever be one woman for him. If only she could be persuaded to feel the same way...

As each of them are fuelled by there own romantic visions of the future, they must discover that life does not always work out in quite the deal way they have planned.

Jamie Holland's portrayal of modern life is infused with warmth, humour and even optimism. 'An Almost Perfect Moon', a story about finally growing up and understanding that happiness can take many different forms.