Daft, satirical, with several morals for you to choose from at the end...

The TV show, The Great Big Thank You, is feel-good, family entertainment, in which Good Samaritans are reunited with those whose lives they saved. But Christian Tidy - media star and champion of re-wilding - is on a social media collision course with Martha McCann, a woman who talks to her beans and wants to restore her local allotments instead.

If you're bored by books about conflict, and ready for a funny story about conflict resolution, this one fits the bill.

I grew up in Liverpool and yes, at heart I'm the stereotype ? a warm-blooded enthusiast who likes nothing better than swinging between a good laugh and a good cry, and to whom silence is alien. People are endlessly interesting, and there's so much about the world that I just need you to know! I studied languages as a route to reading even more books and am a keen amateur singer.

My home town is the setting for Amateurs (2024), a coming of age novel, in which a slightly precious young composer collides with an amateur choir, and in doing so comes to a new understanding of family, identity and talent, all scrambled since her twin sister's brain injury.

My published fiction includes A Backward Glance (novel, 2016), a re-working of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice; a series of stories, Art My Eye (2016); and Joe Faber and the Optimists (2020, prompted by the experience of my husband's stroke). Serious comedy is the furrow I'm ploughing now.