The Old Spring

ISBN: 1906994226

Author: Francis, Richard

Condition: New

Product Description One day in the life of an English pub-abounds with sadness, banter, and exuberant storytelling, showing all the communal spirit and camaraderie of a pub Dawn and Frank wake up one wet morning in the flat above their pub, the Old Spring. Today they have to meet the brewery representative, creepy Tim Green, and track down an error in the books-or face the consequences. Dawn has something else on her mind, too: the anniversary of an old tragedy for which she always felt responsible. Frank has a problem of his own-a secret that has ended his sex life with Dawn. Darren the cleaner, meanwhile, is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead landlord. The pub's "chaplain," Father Thomas, tries to rediscover his faith under the skeptical scrutiny of his tormentor, Alan. And, in the local hospital, pub regular Romesh drifts towards death on his magic carpet, while back in the bar, the tattooed man faces up to a life and death crisis of his own. Review "A small classic-a slim book of deep but intimate ambition, a record of beauty and strangeness of small lives on a small island."  -Guardian"Wry, humane comic writing."  -Times"Excellent."  -Independent"A wonderfully boozy evocation and celebration of pub life, full of all sorts of characters you dread meeting in a public bar, but are glad you did."  -Gerard Woodward, author, I'll Go to Bed at Noon About the Author Richard Francis is the author of nine novels and three non-fiction books, including Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia and Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience.