AN INVERKEITHING-based author is publishing a comedy-drama novel based on his lifetime of experience in the hospitality industry.

Jamie McNeish's book, 'Who’s looking after who?' is based on his own upbringing and is a personal depiction of exaggerated real life in the 1970s. 

It is set to be published on Monday, October 28. 

Jamie said: "The book is a very personal, imaginative and a funny depiction of exaggerated real life in the 1970’s, based on real characters during a time when life was very different. When kids had more freedom and there weren’t so many rules.

"The scenarios are outrageous- based on Jim and Helen Coyle and their family. The couple has far too much on their plate with their two children, a 4-year-old Frank who is working full-time in their tea shop, and their newborn baby Jamie, who thinks aloud in a judgmental way like an adult and is obsessed with boobs.

"The book is the madness of ‘Fawlty Towers’ mixed with the weirdness of ‘Hotel New Hampshire."