Synopsis

This time last year I started to write a book. Next week I'm submitting it for the first time to some people who might do something with it. I've to give them a couple of chapters and a synopsis. Below is that synopsis (give or take 16 words). If anyone has any comments or feedback I'd love it the next few days.



Dominic ‘Bucky’ Buckingham has a headache. He’s had it for a few months now. The doctors say he is ‘stressed.’ And who can blame him; he is stuck in a job he hates at a time when he is ‘lucky to have a job,’ saddled with a mortgage for an apartment he never really wanted and is a constant source of disappointment to women in his life. This is not where he imagined he would be at 33 years of age.

Constantly being told what to do by domineering women, his mother, girlfriend, boss, even his therapist, Bucky wonders if he’ll ever have control of his balls long enough to stand up for himself.

When Re-port International announces widespread redundancies his colleagues are justifiably panicking but Bucky can’t help but wonder if it’s a good thing. He hates his job, the boss, the customers, even the cleaning lady. But can he convince his girlfriend Hannah that it’s for the best.

Hannah is the woman who he is prepared to spend the rest of his life with but sometimes he is not sure what kind of life that will be. On a holiday with Hannah in Gran Canaria he starts to believe he is finally getting to grips with his relationship and it starts to make more sense to him.

It’s only following his trip to mainland Spain where he spends time with a group of open minded Spaniards and a free spirited American call Mirabelle that he starts to see the power of positive people and question if the path he’s expected to take is the right one for him.

A humorous character piece, Status Update focuses on Bucky’s journey from pod employee of Re-Port International to proprietor of a market stall selling bespoke crockery. Along the way we get insights into the relationships that have formed and, for the time being at least, frustrate him.