Last Bus to Coffeeville

Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award

Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life – to end hers.

When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his two remaining friends to help break her out: one his godson, a disgraced weatherman in the throes of a midlife crisis, and the other an ex-army marksman officially dead for forty years. On a tour bus once stolen from Paul McCartney, and joined by a young orphan boy searching for lost family, the band of misfits career towards Mississippi through a landscape of war, euthanasia, communism, religion and racism, and along the way discover the true meaning of love, family and – most important of all – friendship.

If you loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, you'll love J. Paul Henderson's Last Bus to Coffeeville

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'There is heartbreak…black humour… and some of the charm of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry' – Daily Mail

'A fascinating and poignant novel' – Woman's World

'The shimmering humour and life values Henderson explores are certainly something you wouldn't want to miss' – The Star Online