It had been Kelly’s idea to visit the fair. She’d been chasing Ben all summer and his band had got a booking to play the beer tent, doing their covers set for the drunks. She was desperate to go, having spent the summer trying to catch his eye every Friday night across the bar at the Fox, but he’d not shown more than a passing interest, no matter how overt she’d been with her flirting. In her head, this was going to be he...

It had taken me about three months to decide that I regretted hiring Franc. As the company FD, he’d come in, taken over, straightened things out, spotted some savings and costs we could eliminate and basically done all the accountancy that, if I was honest, I’d not had the heart to do. He was reliable, efficient and effective; in some ways, the ideal person to sit alongside me, to keep me sensible, to remind me and the re...