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Storyline/synopsis: The day in the life of John Bainbridge starts with the funeral of an acquaintance followed by a chance meeting with a former mistress. The two events prompt a day-long succession o apparently random memories but nothing in a novel by Booker prize-winner Stanley Middleton is really random, and unanswered questions lie behind Bainbridge's remembrance of the past. What shape has there been in his life? What has been its purpose? What its achievement? Seventy years old, John Bainbridge is a retired solicitor in a provincial town, a man with a formidable reputation who, for all his successful business dealings and persistent philandering, has brusquely kept himself to himself, doing only what he wanted to do. He and his uncle married sisters, daughters of a bishop. When his wife was pregnant, John had seduced his aunt/sister-in-law and might perhaps have fathered his uncle's son. Now in their old age, John Bainbridge and his two sisters have come to terms with life and, to an extent, with each other. 'He had lived adequately.' Can any of them say more? Characters: |
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