When Life Gives You Lemons… :

What if the wisest person in town charged one biscuit per session?

In the small city of Citrusville, a retired philosophy professor named Harry Kane sits every morning on a park bench under a mango tree. Armed with a thermos of masala chai, a hand-painted sign reading “Advice is free. Wisdom costs a biscuit,” and an inexhaustible willingness to listen, he has accidentally become the most unlikely counsellor in town.

He isn’t a therapist. He isn’t a guru. He simply asks the right questions — and somehow, people leave lighter than when they arrived.

They come with wonderfully ridiculous problems: Clive, replaced at work by a chatbot named Moneypenny. Nancy, abandoned for a woman named Trisha who does goat yoga (the goats are participants, not spectators). A retired project manager who brought a whiteboard to a park bench — with action items. A grandmother with 2.3 million followers who can’t bring herself to tell her son she misses his Sunday phone calls.

When Life Gives You Lemons… is a warm, funny, quietly wise novel about the absurdity of being human — and the strange grace that comes from someone who is genuinely paying attention.

Perfect for fans of The Rosie Project, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, and Alexander McCall Smith

Comic fiction with genuine emotional depth

Each chapter is a self-contained vignette — perfect for reading anywhere

“Problems don’t vanish. Life doesn’t get easier. But it does get funnier.”

Welcome to the bench. The chair is waiting.