Driven to Distraction

"Your lives, your secrets; they'll all be revealed eventually." So says Shauna, the rather acerbic courier, to Derek Noble at the start of his week long coach trip to rural Tenhamshire. Derek can't believe any of the eccentric characters sharing this so-called luxury holiday have anything worth telling. Well, apart from Angela of course. She's the only one that can make this holiday bearable, if only their fellow passengers would leave them alone long enough to get to know each other. Whether it's one of the hilariously disastrous excursions or time spent at the rundown guest house, staffed with a neurotic manager, decrepit waitress and under-sexed, Italian waiter, the other holiday makers are always there. But just maybe they'll surprise Derek as Shauna's prediction starts to come true and perhaps Angela will provide one or two surprises herself. Driven to Distraction is a fun romp through the English countryside with characters finding love and friendship while travelling at twenty miles an hour. (Well, it is a clapped-out, old coach after all). "This novel is definitely high on the humour quotient and a delightful recommendation for everyone who is up for a good laugh. The well scripted plot and witty one-liners add more to the fun element of the book. Stuart has portrayed all the characters so well that they seem quite relatable and true to life. 'Driven to Distraction' is one of those novels that you can read whenever you want without losing the plot." - SeriousReading.com