East Fortune

Product Description

The boy stepped out into the road. He stretched his arms out & his legs apart, making an X, palms facing the windscreen, the hands with a slight tremor that Jack only remembered later. His face had a questioning look that asked ' Why are you doing this to me?' Jack has been sleepwalking through his middle age. His wife has left him; his grown-up daughters no longer need him; & he rarely leaves his remote house on the east coast of Scotl&. But when he is involved in an horrific accident, he is jolted out of his stupor, & embarks upon a new friendship that helps him to re-evaluate everything. Douglas is on the early morning Eurostar to Paris to have lunch with a woman he barely knows. Despite his responsibilities to family, work & friends, he is determined to risk everything for his obsession with a stranger. Angus is fifty-four. He has always prided himself on his happy marriage, his reliable car, his nice house, his stable career: there are no nasty surprises. But when a man thirty years his junior takes him to a stuffy room & tells him he no longer has a job, he finds himself suddenly in freefall. As a man without a profession, how does he now define himself? As the three Henderson brothers head to their big childhood home in East Fortune for their annual summer gathering, they steel themselves against sibling rivalry, parental expectation & the vulnerability that comes with being with those who know you best. Intense, humane, humorous & subtle, East Fortune is a moving story about lives at the crossroads; about life & love, chance & hope
- & how families survive.