After 45 years of mundane employment, James Tully retired and took a holiday he had denied himself for many years. Upon travelling on a cruise ship which brought him to the Arctic Circle, he watched the blue sea pass before him and wrote the first draft of his first novel. He then spent six months rewriting the effort of those two weeks, mostly for the purpose of correcting spelling and punctuation.
The year is 1966, and the world is undergoing a transformation, as it often does. In Britain in the 1960s, its people are trying to adjust to what they have been told is a new and bright generation, with different values and new opinions, however unclear, when asked about them. All to figure out the...