Life Sentence

A collection of thirteen stories in a second revised edition to mark his emigration to Australia. A trawlerman yearns for a steady family life, but falls back on the comradeship of shared danger, booze and fish guts. A lonely woman on a housing estate can talk only to her incurably flippant bread roundsman. A young Indian soccer-fan moves to a new town, where the housing is fine but the crowds at Arsenal are far away. This extraordinary collection of short stories depicts with startling clarity and brutal honesty life on the underside of modern Britain...