Advantages: Good, credible story well told Disadvantages: It takes several chapters to gather pace
...middle-age crisis. Guy Bromelow, a school headmaster, is increasingly uneasy about his neurotic wife Jane, who is tormented by Harriet, their demon of a small daughter, and worried about her sudden frigidity. Meanwhile Nina Osland, having brought up her son James on her own, fears that his girlfriend Kerry is leading him into bad ways and that drugs are going to disrupt his exams.
Then things get even worse when an old university friend (the friend ... ...and another student, Martin, on a geography field trip to Africa during the summer of 1976. The venture was cut short by tragedy, but Nina could hardly put the memories behind her for once and for all, as by the time they returned to England she realised she was pregnant with James. Now Hugo, having spent some years in Australia, decides he is coming home for good, and rings Jane and Nina to suggest a get-together for old times sake on his return. ...
JOHNV 25.11.2002
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