A gently comic novel, richly evocative and wittily crafted. The Town takes the reader to a simpler time and place. A comfortable, simple place just beyond memory and imagination, but in some ways more real than the world outside the front door. Here three lifelong friends spend their days drinking beer, eating sausages for tea and enjoying each other's company. When a retired city dweller moves into the town, the three, rather unexpectedly, take him under their collective wing. There follows a tale of mateship, mirth and mishaps, but even here in a place where every day is much like the last, the unexpected can still happen.
A heart-warming yarn from a fictional Southwest English seaside town. A life doesn't need to be full of high adventure, international travel and the trappings of success to be thoroughly enjoyable. Many a recent retiree, bored with TV repeats and the shallow one-upmanship of the suburb, will dream of such a retirement after turning the last page.
