Laurence Byrne-Claybourne brings us the tale of a petrified adolescent in his forties whose deceased Isle of Mull based aunt is determined will become useful to society. Even if it means the withdrawal of the allowance that has allowed him to lead his aimless and dissolute life without care up until now and a Last Will and Testament that ensures he will need to re-locate north from London to live in his late-aunt’s Tobermory home for the next five-years. Five-years he will spend jumping through the domestic hoops of that aunt’s young Polish housekeeper and the fiftysomething female solicitor his behaviour must satisfy if he is to receive the benefits of his aunt’s estate at the end of his residency. Domestic hoops, though he is not to know it, that will soon be more than simply domestic and will ensure a very different man emerges at the end of those five years. Laurence Byrne-Claybourne is the pseudonym of a Fort William professional with a passion for fiction that deals with the assertive and commanding female.