'Philosophy isn't about finding the right answers but asking the right questions'

Jack is a young man without a plan. After graduating from university in the UK, he embarks on a doctorate in political philosophy at Princeton in the search of something meaningful. When he secures a scholarship from the Willoughby T. Forsyth Foundation, the future's looking bright across the pond...

After two relatively quiet years at Princeton, the election of Trump galvanises Jack to join the political activism sweeping campus, through which he finally finds a purpose and a girlfriend! But in a cruel twist of fate, the budding progressive activist's life is thrown into chaos when the sordid past of Willoughby T. Forsyth is revealed.

Dumped, publicly shamed and with his bank account empty, Jack struggles haplessly through the fallout from under his desk. Will he ever make it out? Witty and thought-provoking in equal measure, Pond Life is a satire of contemporary academia that questions the institutionalisation of privilege and highlights the dangers of unequal power.