A late spring christening brings back together four old friends who have not seen each other since their graduation day, twenty years before.

They enjoy the hot summer bank holiday catching up with each other and then return to their own, established routines. But the christening has acted as a catalyst and no ones life is the same again.

The novel is based in Ireland and in Kent, over a heat wave summer, when new relationships spring from nowhere, redundancies happen, a new business starts, an old lover is lost, a marriage unravels, a young horse is trained for a competition and a...