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Eternity Is Temporary by Bill Broady

Fiction. April 2007
Paperback (198 x 129mm)
£7.99.
320 pp
ISBN: 978 1 84627 036 9

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'Piquant characters are Bill Broady's strength and Eternity is Temporary is thronged with eccentrics and grotesques... Pin-sharp and enjoyable'. Independent on Sunday

'As intensely felt as it is intensely urban, this is the first British novel really to explore the psychological crease that seemed to accompany the opening tremors of punk in the UK.' Michael Bracewell

'Broady writes with rude, comic dynamism, as if channelling the spirits of Jonathan Swift and Rabelais.' Financial Times

It's the blazing hot summer of 1976 and Adrea and Evan have just started working in a north London care home. Their days are spent nursing an eclectic group of residents and dodging Matron and her twisted entourage, and their evenings reverberate to the loud, shouty sounds of the new punk rock - and to the shock of first love. As the heat rises on the streets, so does the intensity of their feelings, with inexorable, incendiary consequences...