Nothing Happens Up There

He didn’t expect to fall in love. He didn’t expect to find his constituents and farm animals dying and he certainly didn’t expect to find the cause was a local laboratory experimenting with gene-editing.

She didn’t expect to start an affair in Barcelona. She didn’t expect her husband to embrace ‘the boring North’ and she didn’t expect her biggest client to be her husband’s biggest enemy.

But something is certainly happening ‘up there’.

When Andrew Eastwood quits his city job to become West Lincolnshire’s MP, the unexpected happens. It’s 2018 and in the next two years prime ministers will come and go, scientists will make medical breakthroughs and Covid will strike the world.

Andrew and his wife must make the biggest decisions of their lives. Will love overcome the forces that threaten the Eastwood family and will the world ever be the same after this?

Nothing Happens Up There is not only a fast-moving thriller that explores the rapid development of gene-editing but also a modern love story of a couple torn between choosing a career and a home life in a world beset by self-serving politicians and businessmen who will stop at nothing to make their fortune.