Showing August by Gerard Woodward

Paperback. Pages: 320 Publisher: Random House Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field. It has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. At Easter. Mrs Evans writes to - ask if he. Colette and their four children require the third field for the summer; in August. their Bukta tent is ought down from the attic and unrolled in the garden of 89 Fernlight Avenue. Aldous has started to feel that a certain symbiosis has developed between their North London home and the Welsh village that they only ever see in August. When the Evanses acquire a milking parlour. Aldous associates it with the acquisition of the Jones's first car-but Colette is right in seeing 'the culling of the dairymaids' as a premonition of far more radical change. As the years pass. Aldous's family idyll starts t...