Dawn and Frank wake up one wet November morning in the flat above their pub, the Old Spring. Today they have to meet the brewery representative, Tim Green, and track down an error in their books – or face the consequences. Richard Francis’ novel is full of sadness and laughter, celebrating the capacity of the English pub to weave together a community of seemingly random encounters. Readers can walk into its pages as if into the Old Spring itself and become surrounded by people’s jokes, hopes and fears, by lifes biggest issues and smallest joys. ‘A wonderfully boozy evocation and celebration of pub life’