This short novel is about two older twin brothers living on a farm in Wales and seeing the 20th century pass by their very eyes. We begin with the central and important image of the two of them, now in their late 70s sleeping in the same bed together, aged, infirm, close to the end of their lives as they look out into the world of the late 1970s — Jimmy Carter, the end of the hippie era, the rise of Thatcherism. We then jump […]