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, regards his strike at the end of the '70s as a totally justified stand of craftsmen against an unfair management, which he fully expects will cave in as usual, whereas the dustmen's strike seems to him to be irresponsible and greedy. He is the wage earner; his wife Maureen is the housewife, keeping things going in their council flat. Even now, though, there are hints of stresses within their relationship, which will fracture completely under the extreme pressures of the boom-and-bust era. Charlie...

Tragic and hilarious in equal measure, Tim Lott's story of Charlie and Maureen Buck's ailing marriage and their climb up (and down) the social ladder during the 1980s is a wonderfully honest portrait of ordinary people living through an extraordinary time. Steeped in the decade's cataclysmic events, packed with the crimes and misdemeanours we visit on each another, "Rumours of a Hurricane" is a powerful tale of change, how we face it - and how we don't. 'An outstanding comic novel. Places the 19...