Gary Sparrow has been trapped in the past with his wartime wife, Phoebe, and their son, Michael, since the war ended. Life's been pleasantly boring, but there's a crisis looming. It's 1962, and The Beatles are about to revolutionise the music scene. Gary has been passing their songs off as his own for the past twenty years, so he's going to be in terrible trouble unless he can persuade Brian Epstein to give up on the Fab Four. If that's not problem enough, at Noel Coward's party, Phoebe boasts that her Gary was a spy during the war. This alerts Noel's friend, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, who really was a spy during the war. Fleming has never heard of Gary Sparrow. Maybe he was spying for the wrong side? Fleming starts to investigate. Then a freak event overturns the laws of physics and catapults Gary back to 2016, a strange new world of selfie sticks, tattoos and vaping. Even more startling, he discovers he has a teenage daughter, Ellie. It seems Yvonne was pregnant when Gary got trapped in the past. Ellie has no idea he's her dad. He'd really like to get to know her, but Yvonne's having none of it. All things considered, might he be better off staying in the twenty-first century?Goodnight Sweetheart was a beloved British sitcom written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran which aired between 1993 and 1999 (with a one off special in 2016) and told the story of a time-travelling bigamist called Gary Sparrow, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, who won two National Television Awards for the role. Laurence and Maurice have teamed up with Idiot Box Books to write a novel which picks up where the series left off and serves as the seventh series of Goodnight Sweetheart that might have been.
