'Hi! My name is Henry Jollifer and I guess my life is pretty boring and dull except that my mum suffers from enthusiasms. I'll tell you more about these later. My New Year's Resolutions are: have peace and quiet; get rich; marry my mum off so she's not my responsibility so much.'
Will Henry be able to achieve his aims? With a mum like his, the odds are against it. But Henry's first letter to Lesley, his new penfriend in Auckland, sparks a hilarious sequence of events - both planned and unplanned - that will change his life.
