After Phoenix
Häftad bok. Ten to Ten Publishing, Brighton. 203. 220 sidor.
Gott skick.
Språk: Engelska. Softcover 205x130mm.
After Phoenix is a darkly comic tale of grief, love, friendship and how the humour and absurdity of family life can conquer all...
Bristol, England. 1974. The miners are on strike and Britain is in chaos. When 19-year-old Phoenix is killed riding the motor bike his father, JJ, helped him buy, his family is devastated. His mother, Katherine, blames her husband for their son's death. Her mental health deteriorates and she is admitted to the local psychiatric hospital. Grief-stricken, journalist JJ, moves into the garden shed and refuses to return to the house until Katherine comes home, sublimates his pain by turning his attention to the forthcoming general election. Meanwhile, their 15-year-old daughter, Penny, left to her own devices, struggles to maintain a semblance of normality. It's hard to imagine what could possibly reunite them...
