Chalcot Crescent

"It's 2013 and eighty-year-old Frances (has-been writer) is listening to the debt collectors pounding on her door. While she waits for them to leave, she writes about the boyfriends she borrowed and the husband she stole from Fay, about her daughters and their children. About the Shock, the Crunch, the Squeeze, the Recovery, the Fall, the Crisis and the Bite, about NUG the National Unity Government, about ration books, powercuts, National Meat Loaf (suitable for vegetarians) and the new Neighbourhood Watch. She writes about family secrets ... The problem is that fact and fiction are blurring in Frances' mind. Is it her writer's imagination, or is it just old age, or plain paranoia?"--Publisher description.