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It is 1958, and since Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. In the mean time, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is going back, like the prodigal kid, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his head of hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, Britain. Father Augustus Side is focusing on a bold new theatrical development for Easter, which he, for just one, is aware will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United sports team prepares to remove from Munich international airport, Adam A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his family pet fox and his father's gun, sense the weight of an insidious and inscrutable existence pressing down after him. As these imperiled character types wrestle using their identities, a mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, smoothly, at the strings of these fates, and pieces the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of your lost age, a sojourn to the dark aspect of our former, one we may well not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a little town - using its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals - and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his technology.
