Titled “Goodbye Morecambe”, and published under the name of MN Stewart, the book is set in Morecambe in 1980s, where Stewart himself grew up and spent time working in the town’s famous fairground.

The novel has been described as a “gritty working-class love story”, and is independently published. Stewart says he started work on the book during lockdown. He says that despite working in the mortgage industry for many years he has always been a keen reader and writer.

“In 2020 we were all locked down. Some chose the time to make sourdough bread whereas I saw it as the opportunity to finally sit down and write the book which 80% of the world believe is within them.”

Stewart  describes his first novel as Quadrophenia meets Romeo and Juliet.