Set in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, Snowdonia in Wales, Athens and the island of Spetses in Greece. Death (murder or accidental?) stalks the middle-aged friends as they struggle to cope with their party life in the late nineteen-seventies. Failing marriages, affairs, intrigue and possibly alcoholism seem determined to undermine their pursuit of happiness and their careers in journalism and textiles. As they struggle to resolve their problems it is the discovery of a family tree which holds the secret to an astonishing denouement. Full of history and spirit of place, characters and locations are brought to life in a recreation of the seventies, and the age of their grandparents, tackling the challenges thrown up by the textile era in the Pennine villages. As the characters travel either by train in the early Victorian times or car and plane in the late twentieth century the locations are expressed as vivid perspectives. This is the fourth novel in The Coming of Age series but it stands alone as a nineteenth and twentieth century saga and as a sequel to CAST A HOROSCOPE it is published 2nd in the series.
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