One for My Baby

Alfie Budd married the love of his life – and then he lost her. He doesn’t believe that you get a second shot at true happiness. Returning to the London he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds his world collapsing around him – his parents’ marriage, his beloved grandmother’s health, and his own ambition to be a writer. He takes comfort in a string of causal affairs while he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man he meets in the park, George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changes? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you really like has a child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler called The Slab? In this story of love, sex, tragedy, family and redemption, one man searches for the courage to love again.