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Mary Foster has a story to tell a truth to discover. And she needs to go back several decades in an attempt to pin down the past and come to some sort of understanding and acceptance of the actions of its main players. A chance remark by her frail and elderly mother is the impulse that starts her quarrying. But it is not enough for her simply to recall. She wants to remember it as she lived it, with the impressions and emotions of her childhood and adolescence, a time of very different attitudes and values from the present.
At the age of 11, her family's abrupt, impulsive move from north London to the south coast of England is an unsettling intrusion into young Mary's bland life. Swapping red London buses and the comforting familiarity of suburbia for bleak seascapes and the endless screech of seagulls is as unwelcome as the prospect of their dilapidated and unwieldy new home at 8, Sea View Parade. The sixties may have been an explosive decade for many, but Mary's parsimonious and frugal mother, Ida, and her timid, acquiescent father, Jack, ensure that the family's daily life is impervious to such change. Student revolts, a sexual revolution, rebellious life styles may have been catalogued in the social history books of the late 1960's, but the microcosm of Mary's upbringing and environment is unphased. Befriending the confident and assured Eva Mason, Mary finds an essential ally to guide her through the early teen years and so takes little notice of developments at 8, Sea View Parade where two lodgers have moved in to live alongside Mary and her parents, Ida and Jack Foster. Neat and nervous Miss Mackie and the abrasive artist, Mr. Fred Jarvis, are of little importance or relevance to Mary, she considers. She and Eva are far more concerned with bus trips into Brighton, spending pocket money at Woolworth's and auditioning for the play at the boys' school.
A dramatic event, however, shifts the balance of the lives of the Foster family and the apparent harmony in which they have been living proves to be a facsimile of treachery and lies. Confrontation with the raw truth of the actions of those involved is avoided at the time, however, nudged aside, sidestepped and suppressed for the sake of expediency. It is easier, after all, simply to pretend that none of it ever happened. Leaving home with relief at the age of 18, Mary imagines she has placed the past behind her, parceled it up and removed it from her mind.
The hooks, however, remain, insistent. Memories persist. As the middle aged Mary is compelled to retrace the past, going back to those years at 8, Sea View Parade, her mother, Ida Foster, is dying, her father inevitably declining and time suddenly seems short to uncover certain truths. But even Mary has not anticipated the possibility of potent new revelations and needs to decide whether it is wise or folly to pursue them.
At the age of 11, her family's abrupt, impulsive move from north London to the south coast of England is an unsettling intrusion into young Mary's bland life. Swapping red London buses and the comforting familiarity of suburbia for bleak seascapes and the endless screech of seagulls is as unwelcome as the prospect of their dilapidated and unwieldy new home at 8, Sea View Parade. The sixties may have been an explosive decade for many, but Mary's parsimonious and frugal mother, Ida, and her timid, acquiescent father, Jack, ensure that the family's daily life is impervious to such change. Student revolts, a sexual revolution, rebellious life styles may have been catalogued in the social history books of the late 1960's, but the microcosm of Mary's upbringing and environment is unphased. Befriending the confident and assured Eva Mason, Mary finds an essential ally to guide her through the early teen years and so takes little notice of developments at 8, Sea View Parade where two lodgers have moved in to live alongside Mary and her parents, Ida and Jack Foster. Neat and nervous Miss Mackie and the abrasive artist, Mr. Fred Jarvis, are of little importance or relevance to Mary, she considers. She and Eva are far more concerned with bus trips into Brighton, spending pocket money at Woolworth's and auditioning for the play at the boys' school.
A dramatic event, however, shifts the balance of the lives of the Foster family and the apparent harmony in which they have been living proves to be a facsimile of treachery and lies. Confrontation with the raw truth of the actions of those involved is avoided at the time, however, nudged aside, sidestepped and suppressed for the sake of expediency. It is easier, after all, simply to pretend that none of it ever happened. Leaving home with relief at the age of 18, Mary imagines she has placed the past behind her, parceled it up and removed it from her mind.
The hooks, however, remain, insistent. Memories persist. As the middle aged Mary is compelled to retrace the past, going back to those years at 8, Sea View Parade, her mother, Ida Foster, is dying, her father inevitably declining and time suddenly seems short to uncover certain truths. But even Mary has not anticipated the possibility of potent new revelations and needs to decide whether it is wise or folly to pursue them.
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