Scotch and Oranges

<I>Scotch and Oranges</I> is a contemporary novel about Ned Humber a 25-year-old advertising executive who has affairs with seven women from 19 to 53 including a teenage flirt Eastern European refugee African-American writer actress/stripper middle-aged burnout 53-year-old virgin/Irish patriot and a lesbian. </p><P>Telling the heartbreaking story of each woman <I>Scotch and Oranges</I> also chronicles Ned's growth from callow and selfish to caring and sensitive. After seven very different and affecting experiences Ned not only becomes a kinder gentler leader asserting himself for the good of the agency but also expresses profound regret for the way that he has not sufficiently appreciated all his incredibly diverse women.</p>