A Very Serious Selection Process

Tom is forty-seven. He has an apartment, a job, a past that refuses to behave like the past, and one side of himself that most people know nothing about. Sometimes he wears a diaper. He likes pajamas, stuffed animals, and those rare moments when he doesn’t have to be the person who manages, solves, and handles everything. But being a baby for a while is much easier than finding someone you can be that way with. So Tom does exactly what he does best. He turns it into a project. He writes an ad. Several women respond. Then come the interviews, the notes, the spreadsheets, the practical tests, and one very serious attempt to work out who might become his caregiver. He is definitely not looking for a relationship. He is looking for someone for a few hours. And then Eva arrives. Some selection processes produce results that were never part of the brief. A Very Serious Selection Process is the first part of Tom and Eva’s story — a relationship novel with humor, tenderness, eroticism, and a slightly unusual way of switching off for a while.