It is 1974 & the summer of love is drawing to a close. Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school
... Every summer the four Ryan children play in the ruins of Fernscourt, the once-grand house on the bank of the river.
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The Khojas who are rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane & hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja, who is parcelled off into an