Richard Roper’s ‘This Disaster Loves You’ is about another man whose story is not quite what it seems

Richard Roper charms and surprises with This Disaster Loves You’ The story opens in 2017 with Brian waking up, alone, in the apartment above the pub.

Brian owns a pub on the English coast, purchased with his wife more than a decade ago .

Roper writes fluid, readable prose, as charming as The County Arms .