Half a World Away

Strangers living worlds apart.
Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way...

Kerry Hayes is a single mom, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into foster care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past.

Noah Martineau is a successful lawyer with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back.

When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will have life-changing consequences for them both.

Funny and moving,Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its powerfully emotional, heartrending final page.

Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham, UK. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a Features Editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan.

Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as "full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations," and by The Times as "a funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic". Since then he has written thirteen novels including Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty and The Man I Think I Know. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.

You can find him online at mikegayle.co.uk and on Twitter @mikegayle.