Four Londoners whose lives are already entwined wittingly and otherwise are about to meet again in an obscure seaside town in southern France . . . Set in France London and Las Vegas Staying out of the midday sun is the second part of a trilogy spanning twenty years in which the heroes are challenged with the everyday: love babies gîte cleaning a new language aging parents - as well as shoot-outs Las Vegas weddings bureaucracy duck gizzard salad and possibly the end of the world.