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The Wainwright

Boys

One woman… Four men… One

mountain…

Paul Webb

KEY SELLING POINTS

A wry, quirky mystery story punctuated by bursts of outrageous humour.
The book is designed to attract the attention of anyone with an interest in the Lake District, particularly by
introducing the name Wainwright, a nod to Alfred Wainwright, patron saint of the Cumbrian fells.

One anonymous woman… with a dream.

Four unrelated men… all in receipt of an identical solicitor’s letter urging them to travel to the town of Keswick
in the heart of England’s Lake District. A washed-up alcoholic City banker, a time-share crook living on the
Spanish Costas, the neurotic gay owner of a B&B and a destitute hippy living on his wreck of a boat are all
inexplicably summoned. There is the promise of ‘something to their advantage’ but even without this
enticement all have good reason to want to escape their current everyday situations. The four men’s converging
journeys, by air, road, sea, and mountain paths produce four very different stories. Each has its own cast of
eccentrics and grotesques, and a few saints and saviours, laughable disasters and chaotic episodes of high
farce. There are also unexpected moments of sensitivity and pathos and as the characters reach their journeys’
ends it’s clear none of their lives will ever be quite the same.

And one mountain…bleak and brutal, it holds the key to the mystery and provides the rainswept setting for the
dramatic and tragic climax.

Paul Webb was once a South London property developer but in recent years has divided his time between
Cumbria, East Africa and southern Spain. He has been walking the fells and sailing the lakes of ‘Lakeland’ for
thirty years and now lives in the area. Brought up with boats he has sailed over 20,000 miles on many of the
world’s oceans and seas.

Local interest: Lake District

Publication Date: Was Feb now March 2024. £9.99 ISBN: 9781805142225
Thema subject category: FU – Humorous fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 344 pp Portrait Author location: Cumbria

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