Henry Checket and Peggy Thurston have been forgotten by society, left to spend their final years in a old people's home. Exploring their relationship, the author of "Mates" and "The Discus Throwers" tells of their past, the pleasures and regrets that neither wish to forget.
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Marked annoyance with ageism and a touch of earthiness steer Wakefield's ( The Variety Artistes ) warm, humorous tale of love and revolt in a retirement home safely clear of sentimentality. Henry Checket and Peggy Thurston balk at playing along nicely in activities such as ``Reminiscence Therapy'' and potato block printing (``bloody waste of good food,'' grumbles Peggy). But such behavior sits ill with Mrs. Fairhurst, the supervisor and driving power of Restmore Haven, who tries to have her septuagenarian rebels shipped out to a psycho-geriatric ward. They respond by joining forces: they'll get married. Mrs. Fairhurst, contemplating the ``nitty gritty'' side of marriage, is appalled. Yet Henry and Peggy build a generous and affectionate relationship in which present and past intermingle. Henry occasionally confuses Peggy with his memories of Charlie, a lover from his youth, and when Peggy thinks she's chatting with Larry, her longtime lesbian friend and companion, Henry kindly assumes that role. And as the story develops it becomes clear that indomitable Mrs. Fairhurst has created a fantasy world more elaborate than that of any of her charges.
Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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'One for sorrow.' Henry Checket sighed and scanned the lawn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Lamb, Veronica Fairhurst, Daphne Gobling, Nigel Gobling, Henry Checket, Peggy Thurston, Jane Mumbry, Wee Willie Winkie, Charlton Heston, Albert Thurston, Dorothy Squires, Winston Worrell New!
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'One for sorrow.' Henry Checket sighed and scanned the lawn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Lamb, Veronica Fairhurst, Daphne Gobling, Nigel Gobling, Henry Checket, Peggy Thurston, Jane Mumbry, Wee Willie Winkie, Charlton Heston, Albert Thurston, Dorothy Squires, Winston Worrell New!
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- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung in Front Matter
- Babes in the Wood by Bob Heather on page 132
- The Oxford Chronology of English Literature on page 183, and page 336
- The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty on page 318
- A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works by Michael Cox on page 463
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English by Jenny Stringer on page 695
- The Oxford Chronology of English Literature by Michael Cox on page 796
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