The trials and tribulations currently playing out in the international scandal involving News Corporation's tabloid newspaper, News of the World, Britain's bestselling Sunday paper,  are nothing compared to those brought to life in First Ediiton.  James Mason has one of the best jobs in the world.James Mason has one of the best jobs in the world.  As editor of the Globe, one of London’s leading tabloid newspapers, his job is all about entertainment.  It’s also about destroying the lives of politicians and celebrities.  And it’s about publicly humiliating the more fortunate for the pleasure of the less fortunate.  And if James Mason has learned nothing else in his nearly 20 years on Fleet St it’s that nothing entertains, nothing destroys and nothing humiliates quite like infidelity.  And nothing sells like infidelity either.  And so when the opportunity arises to expose the infidelity of one of Britain’s leading politicians with a high-class call girl, James doesn’t hesitate to take it.

But how does James cope when he goes from reporting the news to being the news?  How does he cope when his own infidelity is exposed and the details of his year long affair with London socialite and IT girl, Sienna Barrett, are splashed on the front pages of rival newspapers and he finds himself hounded by the tabloid press?  How does he cope when he and his family lose that which he so routinely denies others?  Namely, their privacy.

If James Mason is in the relationship destruction business then his American wife, the internationally-renowned marriage therapist, Dr Deborah Sacks, is in the relationship salvation business.  For Deborah almost everyone deserves a second chance, even those who are guilty of infidelity.  But how does Deborah cope with her own husband’s adultery? Can she give James a second chance?  Can she follow the advice she has given her clients and her millions of readers? She has spent her life saving the marriages and relationships of others, but can she save her own?

First Edition, as it explores the world of tabloid journalism and celebrity, follows the trials and tribulations of James and his efforts to make the Globe the nation’s top selling newspaper.  From attending film premieres in Leicester Square, to after-parties in Mayfair, to defending libel proceedings from A-list Hollywood actors, to launching the Globe’s new Page 5 Girls, as he takes the Tribune’s Page 3 Girls head on, the life of James Mason is nothing if not entertaining.  But tabloid editors by the very nature of their jobs have their enemies.  And over the years James had created more than his fair share of enemies - many of whom will stop at nothing to exact revenge.

While James tries to make the Globe an even bigger success, Deborah faces her own challenges – from counselling wives, who’ve had enough of their useless husbands who do nothing around the house, who don’t know the names of their children’s friends, or even when their children’s birthdays are, to staking out suspected adulterous husbands in Notting Hill, to researching theories on how husbands really want their wives to behave in the bedroom.

First Edition is a novel that is both witty and comic.  It’s a story about tabloid journalism and our obsession with celebrity.  It’s also a story about relationships, infidelity and revenge.  It’s a story that will make you laugh but one that will also keep you guessing.