From the bestselling author comes a transporting new novel about the secret lives of a film crew in Brighton, 1968
A producer. A novelist. An actress.
It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin´ Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio´s private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone´s going to crack. Or maybe they all will.
From one of Britain´s best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn´t?