A Week in Menton

He planned every hour of his holiday. Menton had other ideas.

Alex is thirty-eight, exhausted from work, and exceptionally good at organising things. So when he books a week alone in Menton, a sunlit town on the French Riviera, he arrives with a carefully researched itinerary, restaurant reservations, and a plan for almost every hour.

Then he gets lost carrying groceries.

A simple breakfast becomes unexpectedly complicated. A bag of lemons turns into a cooking experiment. A train journey to Nice ends at the wrong destination, entirely on purpose. And somewhere between a rainy afternoon in a picture-framing shop and a walk with people he has only just met, Alex begins to discover what happens when he stops trying to manage every moment.

Set among the pastel streets, seaside promenades, markets, and cafés of Menton, A Week in Menton is a warm, gently humorous novella about slowing down, making room for other people, and finding pleasure in things that never appeared on the itinerary.

Sometimes the best part of a journey is what you didn't plan.

Perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven contemporary fiction, quiet personal transformations, atmospheric European settings, and thoughtful holiday reading.

Includes five original black-and-white illustrations and Places Behind the Story, a short guide to the real locations that inspired the fictional journey.