博客來’A tontine only makes any sense in times of war or plague.’
So are three friends told, when a fourth’s will binds them in a tontine, a legacy payable only to the last of them to follow him in death, the last man standing. None of them want the money on those terms: How good will all the beer in the world taste over the dead bodies of your best mates? Within months COVID-19 is everywhere. Their friend also leaves a widow and daughter.
The Tuesday-Thursday gang of a Midlands golf club provides the leading players and chorus in the turbulent lives, loves, lock-ins, lockdowns and losses of old men (and some women) behaving badly over the period from 2017 to 2025.
After sometimes comic scenes of modern sexual manners and misadventures, things take a darker turn. Apart from illness, leading characters face issues including abortion, dementia, murder, sexual abuse and suicide. Who will pass this fierce examination of relationships between baby boomers and with their previous and succeeding generations, with hopes of renewal in a calmer and brighter future?
