Meet Jack Dyer, Senior Engineer at a large, famous company of engine manufacturers – the sort of massive engines that power generators, not your average car. He is well paid, well versed and well travelled.  So well travelled that his wife and sons see him too infrequently.

The strain on the relationship starts to tell, but he doesn’t know what to do about it. Helen isn’t keen on confronting the issue either. She starts taking comfort elsewhere. The stress of discovering just where, coupled with exhaustion from repeated long journeys, brings matters to a head. Jack’s head.

Good with engines he may be, but it takes a hospital to start repairing the damage to his mind, and the love of his sons to continue the repair, the recovery. An unlikely oasis of comparative peace starts a new journey for his and his sons’ lives. A floating journey. With an engine.

Set on England’s canals and centered on a one-time port in Birmingham, Yes, we live on a boat explores canals, boats, love and, unwonted, a murky world of extremists. Not everyone can say that an attempt has been made on their life.