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The Last Dance
"Children begin by loving their parents;
after a time they judge them;
rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
Oscar
Wilde
The
respectable façade of the Donaldson family in provincial Cheshire through
the years following the Second World War is just that - a façade.
The
parents married for the wrong reasons - Arnold because Alicia was perfect
for his needs; Alicia to escape her family - and because there was a child
on the way.
Arnold has another son, not his wife's; Alicia has a daughter, not her
husband's and these two children become very close as they grow up together.
When it matters deeply the parents lie to their children; but perhaps they
do not know the truth themselves.
The
courses of all their lives are irreparably altered as death and tragedy flow
from those lies.
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