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Growing up in the '50s and '60s Jill and Jay explore the era through contrasting perspectives. They are intrinsically different...or are they? Jill's background is working-class Tyneside. Her family life is happy, if dysfunctional. Despite woeful schooling, Jill is a wonderful learner and her intellectual mentors, the 'lit twins', are destined to be a lasting influence. Blessed with modesty and a magnetic personality, she mesmerises the many young men and women who meet her. Jay enjoys strong parental support and an idyllic childhood. He is touched by Autolycus and becomes a snapper-up of...

'Littered under Mercury', set in the '70s, chronicles the persistently turbulent relationship between Jill and Jay. Following the briefest of reunions, she returns to the States whilst he remains teaching in Cheshire, championing the disadvantaged via 'Shakespeare on the Rocks'; radical pedagogy which his colleagues hate but his pupils love. Jill, meanwhile, thrives in Virginia and is ultimately reunited with her mentor, Sir Anton Keiter, as they attempt to combine the American model of healthcare with a bureaucratic - but free - NHS. Sir Anton is the mastermind, Jill his work-in-progress. ...

A story about the course of true love. Its uncertainty. Its turbulence.