An entertaining tale from an established English author. Written rather tongue in cheek, about an engaged couple. Who although both professionals come from very different backgrounds. Her family are working class, Jewish from Manchester, industrial city in the North of England. His are very middleclass, Anglicans from the lovely cathedral city of York, in middleclass England.
Problems start when they get engaged.
You will not want to put it down. When a very large schizophrenic man escapes from a hospital for the criminally insane, all sorts of people try to track him down. He seems to be headed in all directions at once, but the one who fears him the most is the woman who testified against him. It is also a dedication to the author's master in her apprenticeship. During a party to celebrate their daughter's baptism, Mark and Claire's son is knocked down by a car.