All-Inclusive

They won the holiday of a lifetime. Nobody said anything about getting home.

When Gary Bardsley finds a golden code inside a multipack of prawn cocktail crisps, his family from Stockport wins a luxury all-inclusive week at Sol Paradiso, the first holiday resort on Mars. There is a lagoon under glass, a twenty-four-hour buffet and sunsets that turn blue.

On day two, the alarms go off. By breakfast, the staff and paying guests have gone on the only shuttle. The Bardsleys were left behind because they didnt pay.

With the resort shutting down around them, their only way home is a science station 400 kilometres across the desert, where a cargo rocket leaves in seven days. They have a turquoise tour rover with palm trees painted on the side, a robot concierge that wont stop selling spa treatments, and boxes of mini croissants. Gary is hiding a secret. Denise has read every page of the terms and conditions. Nana Pat is seventy-eight and has never felt better. And sixteen-year-old Kyle wont stop filming.

Then Kyles video goes viral on Earth, and the family discovers that one of his clips shows the resort was sabotaged on purpose. Now the billionaire who left them behind is sending a team to collect them, and Kyles phone.

All-Inclusive is a big-hearted survival comedy-thriller about a family that stopped talking to each other and has to learn to cross a desert together. It is for fans of The Martian, The Mitchells vs. the Machines and Gavin & Stacey.