Abie Longstaff will be touring England, promoting the new book in the Fairytale Hairdresser series,……The Fairytale Hairdresser and Beauty and The Beast.

Catch her at the following places:

Waterstones, Sheffield – 25th March at 11am

Simply Books, Stockport – 26th March at 10.30am

Chorley Library, Lancashire with Ebb and Flow Bookshop – 26th March at 1pm

The Reading Shop, Leicester – 29th March (time tbc)

Waterstones, Bishop’s Stortford – 7th April at 10.30 (time tbc)

Waterstones, Salisbury – 16th April (time tbc)

Cardiff Literary Festival – 17th April (time tbc)

Buy the book here

A dark, bold literary novel about two estranged brothers brought back into each other’s lives by their father’s disappearance – and the emotional, moral and physical reckoning that follows.

Two estranged brothers emerge from long periods of isolation when their father goes missing. Alike in appearance but sharply divided by experience, the brothers are forced into proximity as they search for the elderly man across Gran Canaria.

Nick is a priest, a man shaped by a violent criminal past and sincere religious conversion, while Gary is a former basketball player whose heightened energy and volatility signal a manic episode brought on by bipolar disorder.

As they navigate seedy bars, churches, beaches and volcanic landscapes, the search becomes something deeper: a confrontation with memory, masculinity, faith and care. Their father’s dementia haunts every step of the journey, destabilising the idea of authority and leaving the brothers to negotiate responsibility between them.
What emerges is a deeply humane novel about male bonds – messy, funny and tender – and about what it means to love someone when certainty has disappeared.