The inequity of redemption

ISBN-13: 9781517176112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 366 str.

MR John T. Kruse

Opis

This is the third novel in John's 'midlands trilogy'. The books feature several common characters whom we follow through the decades. The other stories are ' A love foretold', set in Birmingham in 1992/3 and 'Jail, bait and the hook', set in Shropshire in the mid-2010s. The inequity of redemption is the storey of Jann, who moves to Birmingham for work in 1986. He is alone and bored in a big new city and he gets involved in an affair with Beryl, a much older woman who works in the same office. She turns out to be controlling and vindictive and Jann finds himself increasingly isolated and manipulated. Then he meets Maggie at a party and events take a new course. She lives in Nottingham and she offers him an escape from his lover's clutches. Beryl reacts badly- and viciously. As well as exploring the dynamics of Jann's toyboy relationship, the novel also examines questions of religion, politics, privatisation, AIDs and relationships that bridge cultural and age differences.