London, 1995. One tenner. Twelve lives.
London, 1995. Somewhere in the city, a ten-pound note is changing hands. And changing lives.
Fresh from the mint, the note is almost ordinary. Almost. A tiny printing anomaly has left the Queen appearing to wink, as if she knows something the rest of us do not.
Over the course of its journey, the tenner passes through twelve lives: the lost, the lonely, the violent, the damaged and the desperate. A child. A gangster with a secret. A drug dealer, a stripper, a crooked policeman, and others caught in the machinery of a city that rarely forgives weakness.
None of them keep the note for long. But each leaves a mark.
What begins as a chain of chance encounters slowly reveals something darker, stranger and more human: a hidden connection between lives that should never have touched, and a path that may yet lead back to redemption.
Ten Pound Note is a gritty, darkly comic and compassionate novel about life, fate, survival and the stories we leave behind.
