An author quietly and thoughtfully in a comfortable village pub, struggling with a problem. Just what is he going to write about? Where are his characters to come from? Who will they be? What will happen to them within his new novel? As he sits pondering over these questions the first character walks in. Soon he meets the second, the beautiful Katie, and in a very short space of time he is speeding with her down the road towards Cornwall, to the picturesque fishing village of St. Merry. And there his characters congregate to solve his problem for him in this delightful new zany novel.