Product Description
Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his teenage pen pal that has sustained him for 40 years.
Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked stories about hindsight, late middle-age regret, romance and death. Both tender and devastating, these stories explore what it means to make, and live with, a choice.
The work focuses on a handful of characters – Christine, Olivia, Possible, the overarching narrative is connected by character and situation, and united in theme, to form a tapestry of late middle-age reckoning. Bernard, Freddie, Triona and Eva – as they revisit their past and grapple with late-life perspectives. As the book progresses, the first signs of the pandemic begin creeping in at the seams.