Going Up |
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| Author:
| Cutmore, Graham |
| ISBN: | 978-1-9803-3060-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $11.99 |
Book Description:
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Love, Death and Politics - Cambridge in the 1980sIt is 1982 and David Kelsey seems to have a lot going for him. He is eighteen years old, in good health and a first-year undergraduate at Beauchamps College, Cambridge. So why is he sitting alone in a room in a run-down hotel with a jar of painkillers in front of him? Only a few weeks ago he was certain he was putting the restrictions of a dull upbringing in a dreary English provincial backwater behind him. Cambridge University: magical...
More DescriptionLove, Death and Politics - Cambridge in the 1980sIt is 1982 and David Kelsey seems to have a lot going for him. He is eighteen years old, in good health and a first-year undergraduate at Beauchamps College, Cambridge. So why is he sitting alone in a room in a run-down hotel with a jar of painkillers in front of him? Only a few weeks ago he was certain he was putting the restrictions of a dull upbringing in a dreary English provincial backwater behind him. Cambridge University: magical words that would bring new opportunities, new experiences and new friends. But yesterday David went to a funeral. And in the hours that followed he did something that no-one is going to be willing to forgive... Cambridge in 1982 is part of a country still coming to terms with Margaret Thatcher's victory in the Falklands War. Divided between revulsion and patriotic pride, a fissure made more lurid in the primary colours of student politics. David encounters the contradictions of 1980s English class war for the first time: socialists who all went to public schools and Tories from comprehensives. His journey encompasses clashes of culture, of new and old loyalties, and strains on a friendship he had thought would last a lifetime. And love - or is it just infatuation? - for the least suitable person imaginable, someone he doesn't even like.David's story began as a five-year-old who, along with his new best friend, flew to the moon weeks before the astronauts of Apollo 11. Now, with friendships broken and innocence lost, what is going to give him the strength to carry on tomorrow?