At a meditation retreat, a 43-year old pianist gets some sympathetic advice from a fellow participant, after she rejects his awkward, but respectful, advances: he should take up net dating. Soon he has embarked on what he calls his project for living: He wants to work his way out of his lonely existence. Inspired by a book on existentialism he has inherited from his stepfather and with his eyes fixed on the future, he hopes to change certain basic conditions of his life. But certain events of the past still seem to hold sway over him. Perhaps they aren’t easily ignored as he strives to set a new course for his life?

News at Midnight is a novel about a deep, fundamental loneliness, and a fascinating, tender portrait of a man looking for something new to live for.