A brilliant bitter-sweet novel about friendship, romance, love, death and turning thirty.What do you do when a close friend unexpectedly dies?Get everyone together for the party of their lives!Pennance Ward and his great friends, Pine, Stan and Ting, have always hung out together at St Pete's, a cafe bar where they listen to their favourite CDs and enjoy spiralling what-if conversations. When Ting is killed in a random stabbing, the remaining trio must honour their promise to hold the stag-wake they once casually discussed but never really believed they would ever see.The guys set out on a big weekend of dance, drugs, drink, sex, curry and karaoke, ending in a wild road trip. Of course the girls want to come along too, including Ali Fox, a Drop Dead Honey in Pennance's eyes. Could this finally be the moment for Pennance to stop putting life off until tomorrow?Funny, moving and unputdownable, The Manana Man is, above all, a story about friendship in its many forms that will make you laugh, cry and cry laughing.