The extraordinary gloriously uplifting and hotly-anticipated debut novel from Samuel Burr -
available to pre-order now! Clayton Stumper is an enigma... He might be twenty-five years old
but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the
steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British
Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed
crossword compiler Pippa Allsbrook passes away she bestows her final puzzle to him: a
promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for his future. Yet as Clay
begins to unpick the clues he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to
solve - and it's a secret that will change everything...
