by John Bean
Ostara Publications, 119 pages
Available for purchase from Amazon here
Reviewed by Mike Newland
Few reading this will have direct experience of living in the earlier 1960s – let alone that distant time shortly after the end of WWII.
Much of it to those who were there seems like a dream so great has been our disillusion as the high hopes of sunlit uplands dissolved into a decaying country of which we are being dispossessed. But to understand the now we need to grasp how we got to where we are and how it could have happened.
John Bean’s new novel is shrewdly set in the world of Britain just before our accelerating fall.
Much of it to those who were there seems like a dream so great has been our disillusion as the high hopes of sunlit uplands dissolved into a decaying country of which we are being dispossessed. But to understand the now we need to grasp how we got to where we are and how it could have happened.
John Bean’s new novel is shrewdly set in the world of Britain just before our accelerating fall.
