Approaching forty, tired of the big-city
rat race and disillusioned with his shallow relationships and meaningless career,
Mike Lewis discovers a way to swap it all for his idea of something better.

   A thousand miles south he finds a place where warm, sunny days are tempered by an ocean breeze, manatees browse in the nearby shallows and people look like they’re enjoying themselves.

   A place where he could play golf, paint, beach-comb, read the classics, play more golf and listen to his jazz collection any time he chooses.

   It would be an idyllic early retirement.

   But there’s just one problem: he has to be over 60 to join the club.

This tale of one man’s ridiculous attempt at living in a Florida retirement community – and his unexpected encounters with lust, drugs, cosmetics and an identity crisis – was written by Paul Collis, a Londoner now living in California. He adapted it from his screenplay of the same name.

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The Ebook is available from Kindle, Apple’s iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Diesel and other outlets. Price: $1.99. All formats can be bought at smashwords.com

‘The Wrinkly’ paperback (5.25” x 8”,160 pages) is available at your local amazon store. In the USA
it is priced at $6.99, and can be ordered from your local bookstore or from amazon.com

To contact the author with offers of fame, fortune, etc., please write to him at author@thewrinkly.com

Text and website © Paul Collis 2010.

Title, synopsis and screenplay © Paul Collis 2000

Cover illustration and photographs sourced through iStockphoto.com.

Face © Carbouval;   Building © Tatiana Sayig; 

Trees © Saulo Dourado;   Subway © zxvisual; 

Woman © Christian Wheatley;   Golfball © Olaf Loose.

Cover Design by Paul Collis

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4523-6857-3

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4528-9893-3

(ISBN 10: 1452898936)