Joe Morgan is 47 years old and his first waking thought is of the sex he hopes to have with single-mother-to-two-teenage-kids, Suzie Dye. She is a highly educated university lecturer and he has a dead-end job loaning technical gear to students, but he thinks he’s hit the jackpot: a no-strings-attached, sex-only relationship. 

However, things are never that easy when demanding kids, an eccentric ex-husband hiding in the study, back aches, a dying and bankrupt father, a forced trip to Gallipoli and being accused of sending obscene emails from the workplace start to intrude. His memories and level of happiness all hinge upon the physical pleasures of sex and it is only with his daughter, Tess, that his hopes are higher and cleaner. The memories of her mother – and his wife of ten years, Alison – are not tinged with accusations or milestones, but with the curve of her body and how it responded to his touch…Joe has the needs of a horny 14-year-old but the worries of a pensioner. His tale of rejection, reminiscences and recovery is strangely heart-warming.