What drives a decent, happily married, contented man to uproot his family and move to a glittering new job in a glittering new town? Money? Ambition? Or just the chance to shine before he hits forty?

Matt Lewis is the man on the bungee-jump of change. The question is, how much excitement can he take?

With hitting the groove, Phil Hogan moves on from the knockabout woes of family life known to readers of his hugely popular column in the Observer and explores the more treacherous terrain of friendship, marriage, staying out late and flirting with disaster.

A funny, acute and moving story of a man presented with too many choices at the wrong time of his life, hitting the groove is a brilliant and enormously entertaining debut.

"A compulsive read and ideal for journeys to and from work. Watch out that you don't miss your stop." Tribune

"If say, Updike, Roth, Wolfe and DeLillo comprise the Fab Four of late twentieth-century American fiction, then the Oasis equivalent, fronted by Martin Amis, might include Hornby, Parsons, Lott, and now Hogan ... Fabulous" Observer