The Back Up Man

Phoebe Luckhurst was born in London and brought up in Glasgow. She is a Senior Commissioning Editor at The Sunday Times Magazine, and has written features and interviews for the Guardian, Sunday Times Style, Elle, ES Magazine, Grazia, the Telegraph and Vogue. Phoebe has had the theme tune to The OC stuck in her head since 2003 and once almost spent her student loan on a micro-pig. She no longer shops online when drunk. The Lock In was her debut novel, and her second, The Back Up Man, will be published in 2023.

Shortly after being unceremoniously dumped at a petrol station, Anya Mackie finds a pact she signed with Euan Carrick which promised they'd marry if both are still single the following decade. But Euan hasn't been seen for ten years and there's no trace of him anywhere . . . After accepting the help of Jamie Kildare - another blast from Anya's past with very mysterious reasons for tracking down Euan - the pair set off to find The Back-Up Man. But why has Euan just disappeared? Will he remember their pact? And are some things better left in the past? Praise for Phoebe Luckhurst 'Entertaining, endearing, and truly unique. Found myself wincing and laughing with familiarity' Emma Gannon 'Hilarious' Evening Standard 'Stuffed full of belly laughs and nostalgia' Red 'Screamingly funny, deliciously nostalgic and really just a very fun time' Lauren Bravo.