This is the first of three (current, I guess) novels about the same set of characters…well educated, initially precocious, young people from Birmingham trying to figure out life in these 1970s England in the middle of the Wilson administration. The novel focuses primarily on Benjamin Trotter and his sister Lois, whose nephew is telling the story to a new acquaintance, and niece of a more ancillary character in the novel (the ending indicates that her story is forth coming in the second novel). Most of […]