Mr. Gorzug · Book 3
Mr. Gorzug and the English Summer
A cancelled conference, a broken-down train, and an accidental road trip across England.
School’s out. Gorzug and Miss Khan are dispatched to a dreary professional-development conference. Then the trains fail, the plans collapse, and the pair find themselves loose in the English summer instead. Seaside chips and warring seagulls. A village football derby. A B&B landlady with opinions. An aunt who has already decided exactly what Gorzug is to the family, thank you.
Gorzug fills his notebook with bewildered, tender field reports on English life, from queues and weak coffee to tiny kettles and the strange religion of football. When the notebook quietly goes viral, his attempts to understand humanity become unexpectedly public, and something long unspoken between him and Saira Khan edges past deniability.
The lightest, most romantic book in the series: a love letter to England, written by someone still trying to work out how it functions.
“England has done rather well with you too.”
What readers say
Praise for Mr. Gorzug and the English Summer
“This series has been amusing on every page, occasionally hysterical and always accurate.”
“Reading this book is like living somewhere you actually want to be, with people you want to be with, while enjoying gentle fun being poked at things that need poking.”
“Brilliant in a most English way. I will mourn the loss when I have completed the series.”
“Mr Gorzug is completely someone you want to know. He sees what is in front of him and understands it. He is kind without being sentimental.”