Debbie K. reviewed on 6/20/2008 + 15 more book reviews

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At its center is a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. Now, the death of one of them, and the survivors task of driving their friend's ashes from London to the seaside town where they'llbe scattered, compels them to take stock. Through conversationand memory they trace the paths they have followed by choice and by accident: through war and its aftermath,through the dramas of their family lives and of their shifting relationships with one another.

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