Dirty Laundry

When Paul receives unexpected news about his brother Adam somewhere in South America, he reluctantly leaves the safety of his carefully ordered London life to follow a trail that leads through Brazil, along the Amazon River and into places far removed from anything he understands.

Adam has always been the inconvenient one - restless, impulsive and impossible to pin down. Paul, by contrast, prefers observation to participation. Life makes more sense from a distance.

But distance becomes harder to maintain on crowded buses, slow riverboats drifting down the Amazon and in the company of people whose lives refuse to fit the neat assumptions Paul has carried with him for years.

As the search for Adam takes him deeper into unfamiliar territory, Paul begins to confront a possibility he has long avoided:

that standing back from life is not the same as understanding it.

Set against the shifting landscapes of South America, Dirty Laundry is a wry and reflective novel about:

• brothers
• travel
• and the moment a man realises he may have been standing just outside his own life.