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  • Paperback: 358 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099274752
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099274759
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 610,734 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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As playwright, painter and novelist, Richard Fenchurch has been both successful and rich, but now, in his mid-60s, he's beginning to fall apart - again. His daughter plucks him from the squalor of his London house and installs him back in the old family home.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The study of a man in decline against a backdrop of a community in decline, 29 April 2009
By Trevor Coote "Trevor Coote" (Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia) - See all my reviews
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Richard Fenchurch, a collier's son from a Yorkshire village, aspires to and becomes a successful writer and painter but after two failed marriages he finds himself washed up and forgotten in a shabby part of north London. There, sinking into depression and dementia he is rescued by his daughter Etty and brought back to his old Yorkshire home in an attempt to stimulate his recuperation. David Storey's 1998 novel consists largely of Richard's reflections on the women who have shaped his emotional life as he wanders around the neglected haunts of his young days. He recounts tearfully the passionate, obsessive love he felt for Isabella, the mother of his wife Bea and over thirty years his senior, and then his second wife Isabella-surrogate Vivienne, an aging, unstable actress who commits suicide.
A (slightly too) long narrative on how our lives are moulded by society's expectations, it is a moving account of the difficulties encountered by an individual who knows that he has betrayed his family and class in pursuit of artistic creativity and who then betrays his wife by tumbling into an inappropriate and illicit relationship with her mother. However, the author is at his best - as always - when nostalgically describing the tough, grimy mining world into which Richard was born and the current terminal state of a community whose decline in the face of modern social, political and economic attitudes parallels his own.
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