PARADISE NEWS - Penguin

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a sort of professional interest in Paradise. But, having come to Hawaii to escort his reluctant father Jack to the deadbed of Jack's estranged sister, he does not, like his fellow tourists, hope for a heavenly holiday. And that seems just as well as Bernard struggles to overcome the obstacles that threaten the reunion. But Hawaii holds surprises unreamed of in overcast Rummidge. As honeymooners, families nuclear and fissile, professional freddloaders and amateur cameramen avidly pursue their earthy visions of paradise, Bernard discovers the astonishing possibility of love... 'Amusing accessible, intelligent...the story rolls, the sparks fly' -Financial Times-