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The northern clemency, by Philip Hensher

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The northern clemency

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by Philip Hensher

Sheffield. We chart the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular 10-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother's public cruelty and the taunting of 15-year-old Sandra Sellers; childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. 2008

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