Meet Sebastian Woake: successful barrister, reluctant politician and a man struggling with political correctness.
Newly elected onto the local district council, Woake’s political career will lead him to contend with the challenges which are quangos, obnoxious Chinese delegations, rampaging bulls, pompous (and occasionally corrupt) councillors, flirtatious colleagues, exploding nightclubs, over-zealous equality and diversity trainers, and dreary civil servants.
When he is promoted to lead the finance team (as surprising as it is unlooked for) Woake must achieve the impossible; keeping a bankrupt council financially solvent whilst maintaining his tumultuous legal career. Hate crime, Latvian drug traffickers, benefits cheats and an overbearing Head of Chambers are just some of the problems he faces.
Struggling to balance law with politics, Sebastian Woake must ensure that his decisions, behaviour and humour do not alienate him from his colleagues and the Council in an increasingly woke world.
Based on the author’s surprisingly real-life experiences, Being Woake is one man’s hilarious, sometimes questioning, politically incorrect journey attempting to answer the impossible: how to be woke in 21st century Britain?