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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 &ndash, back home, back to the past, back to being friends, even back to being lovers.There&rsquo,s Bill who has recently been widowed and is feeling restless as well as bereft &ndash, he&rsquo,d like to go back to his lost love from his student days. She&rsquo,s Joan, also on her own and intrigued by the prospect of seeing him again. And there&rsquo,s Viv, Joan&rsquo,s friend, who becomes entangled in Bill&rsquo,s search.Meanwhile, Joan is having her own misfortunes at the other end of the country, and when she returns home she seems to have changed and to be unresponsive to Viv&rsquo,s friendship.The adventures of all three are woven into a comedy of errors in this gently under-stated story from the author of &lsquo,Who Your Friends Are&rsquo,, &lsquo,The Roads They Travelled&rsquo,, and &lsquo,Hollin Clough&rsquo,.As usual, her sharp eye for detail brings to life her quietly woven characters, who find their way to a finale which holds possibilities and risks for each of them.