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David
20/9/98 Fetched a Metro-Cafe tuna sandwich for lunch, otherwise remember little worthy note (not that the sandwich is either, come to that).
95 – Eréndira, GG Marquez
So are three friends told, when a fourth’s will binds them in a tontine, a legacy payable only to the last of them to follow him in death, the last man standing. None of them want the money on those terms: How good will all the beer in the world taste over the dead bodies of your best mates? Within months COVID-19 is everywhere. Their friend also leaves a widow and daughter.
The Tuesday-Thursday gang of a Midlands golf club provides the leading players and chorus in the turbulent lives, loves, lock-ins, lockdowns and losses of old men (and some women) behaving badly over the period from 2017 to 2025.
After sometimes comic scenes of modern sexual manners and misadventures, things take a darker turn. Apart from illness, leading characters face issues including abortion, dementia, murder, sexual abuse and suicide. Who will pass this fierce examination of relationships between baby boomers and with their previous and succeeding generations, with hopes of renewal in a calmer and brighter future?
'Golf is just a backdrop to the boozy and amorous adventures of 3 old boys - legends in their own lunchtime.
Their journey may be a a bit "red meat" for some but serious life experiences are covered along the way. Not always with happy endings for our roguish band of brothers.
Includes a meticulous account of the COVID period evoking vivid memories of those extraordinary times.'
A gathering to celebrate family and friends aged from two to eighty-nine on the launch date of my latest novel, The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine: Last Man …
Procrastination is the word Lindsay to my right supplies. Helen of SilverWood Books put me onto New Hart’s Rules. Perhaps ‘precision’ is the word I …
One of my responses at the RCW panel discussion in Rugby library on 5.7.25. Only my most attentive readers will know which book I am …
