This is about a group of friends, older middle age/younger older age Welshers who have things more or less figured out and plan to spend the rest of their days drinking themselves slowly into oblivion. Their plans are upended when a famous writer from their town (who writes about the Welsh Condition without really living it) and his alluring wife return to town and add drama and desire into their lives. So their days of drinking cheap and bad Italian wine get turned around. This […]
There came a faint stirring in his entrails.
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
