An entertaining novel about a variety of
colourful characters living in a small south London street in the 1950's - a
time of great social change. Laburnum Villas is to be sold for
redevelopment within the year and the residents are under threat at the
hands of their ambitious landlord, the self-important Councillor Joe Purvis.
Things take a turn for the worse with the appearance of the vicious Curly
Donoghue, a porter in the Borough Market. Several calamities later,
the lives of the residents suffer a change. Whilst on their annual
August Bank Holiday coach outing to Brighton, they each experience a 'moment
of truth' when they are called upon by circumstances beyond their control to
reflect on their condition. They return to the Villas to face an
uncertain future.
"I could not put
it down" - Wendy Cairns
430 pp
ISBN 0 9538281 8 2 £12.50
Bramber Press
