In the kitchen Gillian loads the Hotpoint and frets about letting her baby go. In the bathroom Clifford styles his hair like Cliff's and wishes for a television. In the front room Arthur smokes a pipe and plots to fend off the loan sharks. In her bedroom Annette lifts up her nightie and heads for Clifford's room. In a tour-de-force of undressed taboo, four monologues intertwine to begin the story of an ordinary family in the fifties. How their seemingly contented, simple world bubbles under with odd desires and secret pangs - how it is shaken when they come to light - and how, step by step with the dawning sixties, life for all of them is whirled into a carousel of fashion, debauchery and explosive revelation.
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Joseph Connolly is the bestselling author of the novels Poor Souls, This is it, Stuff, Summer Things, Winter Breaks, S.O.S. and It Can't Go On. He has also written several works of non-fiction including admired biographies of Jerome K. Jerome and P. G. Wodehouse.
"'Connolly is, at his best, a writer of considerable power and some subtlety.' Jem Poster, Guardian 'This is a book that begins with a deceptively ordinary portrayal of a suburban family, and accelerates into a dark and painful narrative depicting betrayal, murder and exploitation. It is an exciting and powerful novel.' Beryl Bainbridge"
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