All the Materials for A Midnight Feast

A story of love, nuclear terror and Philip Larkin Born at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 'at the very moment when the world looked most as if it were going to blow itself up', Nicholas has spent his life in terror of atomic meltdown. Now, on the eve of his 48th birthday, he is on an overnight coach ride to join an anti-nuclear rally at Faslane in Scotland. His fellow travellers remind him of his younger self at Hull University in the 1980s -- a time he spent under the twin clouds of unr