Sandstone Press Ltd Hotel Du Jack

A woman granted a superpower discovers it’s more trouble than it’s worth.A neighbourhood forum becomes the setting for a bizarre ghost story.A children’s entertainer wrestles with problems that are nothing to joke about.A harassed dad attempts to meet the challenge of the primary school cake competition. By turns tender and satirical, witty and bizarre, the stories in this debut collection cast a fresh eye on first-world problems.Funny and humane, they zoom in on the absurdities and poignancies in work, family, love and loss in our frenetic modern lives.