With his wife, Jane, pregnant, Ashley must resign himself to impending fatherhood and must decide whether to assume the values of his parents or shun society like his brother, in a poignant, witty story by the author of
It's December and there is one foot of snow. Paul, the narrator, is driving east to the seaside in the imaginary company of his son, Euan, whose sixth birthday this would have been. As he drives, and later as he wanders the coast, Paul assembles in d...
It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and that evening a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive. At the local mansion, its ...
<p>Set in a 1960s English new town, <em>Your Fault</em> charts one boy's childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter's story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimis...