What happens when you don’t play baseball, and life just keeps throwing you curveballs? According to Simon nothing good.

Once a perpetual bachelor, now a boyfriend and a father-to-be. And that’s not the only thing that causes chaos in Simon’s life. Puppies, glitter, a dying unicorn, and Simon’s nearest friends contribute too. Then there is the girlfriend, the baby brain, the post-natal depression, the castration, and the absurdly large posters in The Tube.

And the biggest curveball of them all? His enormous ugly, dog – with an even bigger personality – is still there to make everything worse.

Tramping Up is the sequel to The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2024 semi-finalist Lady and the Tramp and Me