Back

A story of friendship and loneliness, of losing and searching and occasional joy. Everyone in this novel would like to go back in one way or another – back home, back to the past, back to being friends, even back to being lovers. There’s Bill who has recently been widowed and is feeling restless as well as bereft – he’d like to go back to his lost love from his student days. She’s Joan, also on her own and intrigued by the prospect of seeing him again. And there’s Viv, Joan’s friend, who becomes