title: The Art of Skimming Stones
author: Brown, Matty
description: A doughy pizza, and again we found ourselves in the same local bar, Heather invading my personal space in a blatant seduction attempt. I was a single man, halfway around the world; I wasn't going to resist. We'd found that bar stool pose and she sank her hips deep into my groin and leant into my face. "You gonna kiss me?" Thirty-something geography teacher, Mr Jones, falls head over heels for his new and pretty protÃ©gÃ©, Miss Anna Taylor. An obsession with skimming stones joins him on a journey to win her heart, but love isn't all it's cracked up to be and he takes a year out to go travelling: his intention â€" to write a book of the world's best skimming locations and, whilst there, find and understand his own heart before giving it to somebody, preferably Anna. This is a love story told through landscapes â€" a twenty-first century yarn of too much choice, bad judgements and missed opportunities: not so much bodice ripping as low-cut jean unbuttoning and a love triangle as confused as a rhombus.