The Trouble with Henry and Zoe (by Andy Jones)

I had not heard of Andy Jones, but when I spotted his novel ‘The trouble with Henry and Zoe’ in a church book sale, a year or so ago, I liked the look of the front cover and the blurb on the back sounded interesting. So I paid my 50 cents and it sat on my ‘to-be-read’ shelf until I picked it up to read about a week ago.

The story is, unsurprisingly, about a young man called Henry and a young woman called Zoe. We meet Henry first, wondering whether it’s worse to marry the wrong girl, or to jilt h...