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It is England in the Jubilee summer months of 2012. Three lovers living in several places await the festivities with varying levels of eagerness, hostility, or indifference. Derek Bailey, in his 60s, has a secret past, linked to a tragic event that happened 24 years before. If he is ever to come to terms with this event, he needs an answer to a question that has nagged at him all of this time, so he starts to write a series of words to Marcus, a young man whom he hasn't found. The secrets disclosed in the words begin to rot the fragile relationships of all three lovers, for even Derek is not immune system to the damaging potential of what he is writing. His final letter places in train a series of events which threaten to demolish the lives of all involved and for just one, the result is catastrophic. This book explores the fragility of connections between folks of all ages whenever there are lingering secrets, and the misunderstandings that occur when the more aged generation attempts to communicate with the younger. That is Richard Ayres' fourth book, the previous being Waterloo Sunset (written and published 2009), A Pennine Occurrence (2010) and The Further Education of Mike Carter (2012).
