The Aerodynamics of Pork

In "The Aerodynamics of Pork," the narrative alternates between chapters devoted to Seth, a gay schoolboy on the verge of turning sixteen, and Mo, a lesbian police detective with the Met. Seth is a musical prodigy, a violinist about to start at music college.

As the summer holidays begin he joins his mother and sister at the Trenellion Music Festival, an eccentric Cornish institution his family helped to found. One by one, his rash pre-birthday wishes start to come true –- his sister is finally revealed as less than perfect, his father absents himself, he gets to play a prominent solo, and he falls head-over-heels in love. Meanwhile, in London, Mo is pursuing a romance of her own and may be about to arrest Seth’s unhinged papa.