"What's the bloody point? In life, I mean."
Tom Cole, widower and part-time cod-philosopher, is about to find out, whether he likes it or not!
Tom Cole has lost his whole reason for existence.
His wife and young child - the combined physical embodiment of everything he has ever, or will ever, care about - are killed when the car they're in leaves the road one stormy, November night.
So Tom decides to do what anyone else would surely contemplate in his position.
He decides to kill himself.
This fateful decision sets into motion a chain of events both amazing and bewildering, and leads Tom to an epiphany which allows him to finally learn what really matters - and that he's been getting it all so wrong!
But is it all too late?
"A Game Of Two Halves?" is ostensibly a novel about the one question that's bugged every member of the human race since time began: What is the meaning of life? Or, as Tom rather more eloquently puts it, "What's the bloody point?"
It should appeal therefore, to any armchair or local-pub philosophers, or anyone who has ever questioned the purpose of their own, or indeed anyone else's existence.
But it is also a humorous, sad, moving, and ultimately uplifting story, about life, love and what happens next.